On 14/05/2013 10:15, Stefan Wollny wrote:
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Mai 2013 um 08:31 Uhr Von: "Tomas Bodzar"
> <tomas.bod...@gmail.com>
>
>>> on his/her laptop as *only* OS and uses it daily for scientific
>>> work? please contact me off list. Thanks
>>>
>>>
>> I'm not sure if there will be some official readings available (you
>> can try BSDmag and similar resources), but it's completely possible
>> and fine as long as there's SW you need in packages/ports or
>> compilation works on your own. And you know, here are in use
>> tradional Unix/Unix-like things so everything is possible.
>>
>> Yes, having it as desktop instead of Windows and/or Linux is
>> working perfectly.
>>
>
>
> Full ACK.
>
> My impression is that most people who pretend that OpenBSD is not
> suited as a desktop system are either ingnorant or just outright
> lazy: - Ignorant on the fine work the developers and countless
> porters did and/or - lazy to read the documentation (or if of
> non-english mothertongue: too lazy to ask for help)
>
> There is NO general-purpose desktop-related task that cannot be done
> with OpenBSD! Full stop. ('Bling-Bling' is NO general purpose
> requirement!)
>
> Unless s.o. has to use some proprietary software that is tighly
> linked to internals of an other OS there is no technical reason to
> use any other OS as a basis for a desktop system
except for resume from suspend not working and video driver issues (yes,
those will work on some laptops, but did not on my Macbook Pro, so that
is a technical reason for using another OS)
>- only personal
> likes ("I can't live without my 'bling-bling'-ads") and dislikes ("I
> don't want to do my homework").
>
> I happily use OpenBSD on my laptop and on an iMac for all day-to-day
> work as I have to ashure my clients that their data is save on my
> systems. No other OS gives me that level of confidence.
>
> STEFAN
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Mark Duller
IT Services, University of Oxford
Network Security Team - OxCERT
