On 12/29/14 08:17, Christopher Barry wrote:
Greetings All,
I've used OpenBSD in the past to build redundant routers and firewalls
and it was fantastic, but it's been quite a few years since I've played
with it. I've also never used it as my default workstation. Yet.
I've always used Debian GNU/Linux on my workstations in the past,
but with jessie/sid (and practically all other linux distros) the
direction the linux userspace has taken is a serious turn for the worst
IMO. I am simply philosophically at odds with systemd, and I would like
to stop relying on linux altogether if possible. My problem is I have
specific needs, and it's not clear if I can meet them running OpenBSD.
I'm hoping I can, and someone can share their experiences with making a
similar setup work.
Firstly, I'm running an i7 960 with a PCI-e ATI Radeon 7850 in a three
monitor configuration (2 direct DVI and 1 active HDMI-to-DVI dongle)
using the OpenSource Radeon linux driver @1920x1200 on each monitor.
I'm using enlightenment 17.6 as my window manager. I use and rely on
blender <http://www.blender.org> a /lot/ with hardware accelerated
OpenGL, and having three monitors is important for my graphics work.
Is anyone running OpenBSD with three monitors? With blender, hw-accel
OpenGL, and/or E1{7,8,9}?
Your thoughts, knowledge, and possibly links to more info would be
very greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
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-C
As this is a "getting to know you" thread.
I use OpenBSD in a "desktop" role.
snapshots on an Intel i5 with a radeon 6950, two screens(my card chokes
on the third screen but I think that is hardware)
I like the "one dimensional desktop" style setup, that is, spectrwm and
lots of xterms. For what its worth spectrwm has the best multiscreen
support I have seen
I don't use blender every day, but I do find it handy from time to time
(for me 3d printing stuff) The maintainer tends to keep it nicly up to
date, which I appreciate as it looks like it is a bitch and a half to build.
I update the snapshots every couple weeks when I want to try what ever
new stuff comes out of the pipe(*cough*, and libc bumps, *cough*).
One thing I would recommend is to look at login.conf(5) and set the
memory limits to something gratuitous, many of the "desktop"
applications like to use a lot of memory.
And as far as overall experience, I think obsd is a little "slower" than
linux(whatever that means) but the simplicity and correctness of the
system(obsd was the first/only system where I feel I understand how the
whole thing works) means I enjoy using it quite a bit more.
So good luck, and I hope it works out for you as well as it did for me.
