On 31/10/05, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>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... > > > > 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" > > Alternately, a LiveCD distribution along the lines of "FreeSBIE", > to show off the usability and security of OpenBSD on the desktop. > > A starting point might be > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/07/14/openbsd_live.html > > I'd love to see a bootable OpenBSD desktop CD with all applications > tightly wrapped by systrace, so I don't need to recreate and redistribute > the boot disk after each new Firefox, GAIM, etc exploit. > > Kevin
I think it would be more useful with a m0n0wall-type distribution image. So far, I haven't seen one, but I haven't looked very hard either. -- Andreas Kahari
