From: David Brownlee <a...@absd.org>, Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:41:39 +0000
> 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 Can I get more information about "Better video support under Firefox"? Recent pkgsrc/www/firefox package has GStreamer support and you can play almost all HTML 5 Video. I should write how-to on this topic... > - 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...) -- Ryo ONODERA // ryo...@yk.rim.or.jp PGP fingerprint = 82A2 DC91 76E0 A10A 8ABB FD1B F404 27FA C7D1 15F3
