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I like OpenBSD a lot, but sadly my hardware is all 'nvidia' based, which means poor X11 performance. Wouldn't hesitate to use it for a headless box though.
BTW, Anyone using MTier for prebuilt -stable updates of the ports?
BTW, Anyone using MTier for prebuilt -stable updates of the ports?
Yes. I've tried it and it works well, but, I now prefer to apply all of my own patches from source and re-compile my kernel and binaries manually as needed.
Yep, I've done the same in the past, and would still continue to do that for the base system, but I was thinking more along the lines of updates to things like firefox, where rebuilding takes a lot of time/effort.
Yep, I've done the same in the past, and would still continue to do that for the base system, but I was thinking more along the lines of updates to things like firefox, where rebuilding takes a lot of time/effort.
I primarily apply patches to update the base system. I will on occasion run pkg_add -Uu to see if there are any new packages for my release. OpenBSD does not usually add new versions of Fire Fox to a release from my experience.
For newer versions of Fire Fox you could run -Current. I am happy to patch my unit and use the provided software in my repository. I upgrade my OpenBSD installations at each release.
I was going to hang on with OpenBSD and upgrade to 5.5, but these days I'm short on time and Slackware just keeps me coming back. It's definitely my favourite *BSD thus far.
I like Slackware and OpenBSD the same. At the moment I am dual booting Slackware and OpenBSD 5.5 on two boxes. OpenBSD plays very well with lilo. I love the elegant simplicity of OpenBSD.
I'm now running 5.5-stable with KDE4. Couldn't get KDM to work (it freezes if started via rc.conf.local - I can start it manually from it's init script without problems) so gave up on that and just "startx".
Apart from that, the only problems I've encountered so far is with KDE power manager which fails with some error about dbus / backend and with kmix which I just completely disable.
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