On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 04:14:34PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote: > I was never able to get any browser running on NetBSD to properly run flash > and other hideous things which are required these days. The browsers were > pretty old versions, too. Maybe things have got better now, don't know.
Yes, the things have improved a lot. I have also been through times when flash wouldn't work on NetBSD. But in recent past as much as I recollect I have not faced any problem with firefox and flash. > I was using OpenOffice, but it was buggy (and so is LibreOffice - I'm trying > to learn LyX at the moment because I got tired of the formatting problems, > lagging etc. of LibreOffice). That is somewhat a universal phenomenon with WYSWYG software, no matter which platform and which office product. So wouldn't say it's NetBSD's fault! Learning LyX or latex is definitely a better thing to do. > Maybe I'll give NetBSD a try on my older desktop system after getting the new > one into production use.. :) Reminds me. When I was new to NetBSD I installed it on a partition as an alternative/backup system for fun and learning. Do not recollect a precise reason or point in time when it ended up being my primary system pushing my erstwhile primary system to play a backup role. I still have majority of my data on ext3 partition, which was a result of arrangement I started with. Mayuresh.
