I wonder what's the current state of desktop on OpenBSD
The ps/2 mouse driver is now extremely stable!
Right, but it's unusable on Linux...like systemd and pulseaudio :)
OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
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Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
#22This is my favorite release since 5.5, and is the codebase that finally pushed me to start running -current. Thank you OpenBSD developers!
2020 sucks and I feel so fortunate to WFH managing things that run on OpenBSD. If you're doing alright, please consider donating:
Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
#23I wonder what's the current state of desktop on OpenBSD
Gnome and KDE are in the ports tree and kept very up to date. Everything there basically works. Most supported hardware just works out of the box with very little tinkering.
Of course there is less hardware supported than Linux and support can lag a bit, since there are few people writing drivers. But modern Thinkpads work quite well.
All that said, I have found Gnome to feel a little slow on OpenBSD compared to running on on the same hardware on Linux. So on OpenBSD I mostly use dwm, which feels super fast.
Generally most everything you want can be found in the ports tree.
Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
#24Interesting: Added wg(4), an in-kernel driver for WireGuard VPN communication.
When it was added to current, I've even sysupgraded to snapshot just to test it. The setup is very straightforward, clean and easy, just like OBSD in general
Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ps/2 mouse driver is now extremely stable!
Right, but it's unusable on Linux...like systemd and pulseaudio :)
I've used both on every machine I've owned since 2013. Both desktop, laptop and server without complaint
What issues have you had with them?
Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, but it's unusable on Linux...like systemd and pulseaudio :)
I've used both on every machine I've owned since 2013. Both desktop, laptop and server without complaint What issues have you had with them?
It was ironic...but with pulseaudio i had LOTS of problems.
BTW: Why Pulseaudio on a Server?
Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've used both on every machine I've owned since 2013. Both desktop, laptop and server without complaint What issues have you had with them?
It was ironic...but with pulseaudio i had LOTS of problems. BTW: Why Pulseaudio on a Server?
Network audio for piping music around the house with Ras Pi's
Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
#28I wonder what's the current state of desktop on OpenBSD
Gnome and KDE are in the ports tree and kept very up to date. Everything there basically works. Most supported hardware just works out of the box with very little tinkering. Of course there is less hardware supported than Linux and support can lag a bit, since there are few people writing drivers. But modern Thinkpads work quite well. All that said, I have found Gnome to feel a little slow on OpenBSD compared to runn…
How is battery life and suspend/resume support for Thinkpads?
Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
#29Time flies. I still remember starting with OpenBSD in early noughties, I think 3.5 and 3.6 in 2004, which seemed like a mature and exciting project at that time already; fast-forward 2020, and it's amazing how far we've come. Great to have been part of it, another 25 years now!
Re: OpenBSD 6.8 released (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary)
#30Interesting: Added wg(4), an in-kernel driver for WireGuard VPN communication.
Yup! Pretty exciting indeed. Now OpenBSD has first class support for WireGuard, out of the box. And all the usual tools such as wg(8) and wg-quick(8) work too.
Were those imported into the base system?
I ask because I see that the wireguard-tools package (which contained just those two binaries) still exists for 6.8.