On 17 February 2015 at 13:24, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 01:29:11PM +0100, Stephan wrote: >> Is there anyone still interested in bringing NetBSD to the desktop? > > I use NetBSD on desktops and laptops. > > What specific characteristics do you think NetBSD needs to "bring" it to > desktop? (Also, I didn't get "still" part of it.)
I've also been a primary NetBSD desktop user since sometime in the last 1990s. Current usage is on an amd64 laptop with Firefox, LibreOffice (and google apps for quick doc/spreadsheet), jwm wm, and the standard set of rdesktop, gimp, vncviewer, inkspace etc. The experience could definitely be better. If I had to make a list it might include: - The drm2 work for NetBSD-7 - I'm using the beta now, but its probably not production ready - Working laptop suspend/resume - Chromium (for more browser choice) - Better video support under Firefox - Better audio handling (muxing of output) - Not defaulting to twm (there is already another thread on this, ctwm/golem have been mentioned) - More stable flash (ick, but...)
