Not forking in the strictest sense - pc-bsd is not exactly a fork of FreeBSD but more a preconfigured installation and some userland X tools to simplify package management. A nice X frontend for package installation and a modern window manager, together with some hardware config tools and we'll have a perfect "desktop OpenBSD"
On Monday 31 October 2005 04:51 pm, Brandon Mercer wrote: > Gareth Nelson wrote: > >I tell people of the joy of puffy everywhere I go, at the busstop I shout > >"THEY CALLED IT BSD AND OPEN BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS FREE" > > > >Seriously though, I now recommend OpenBSD to everyone as a firewall/server > >system for those migrating from that redmond thing. As a desktop OS, it's > >unfortunately a bit difficult to setup with everything needed by the > > average desktop user who doesn't care what their OS is. This makes me > > wonder - a desktop OpenBSD fork, similar to pc-bsd but based on FreeBSD > > might be a good idea. > > I agree with you, keep singing the OpenBSD songs with your windows down > while driving to work, or at the bus stop!! People love my "evil puffy" > version. I don't think forking is a good idea... lets improve what we > have. Add support, submit improvements, help develop, if someone else > can do it, we can do it (better), secure and free... and always, OpenBSD! > Brandon
