[OpenIndiana-discuss] No longer using OI Desktop

[Hans J Albertsson]

Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5
Den 5 jun 2015 01:07 skrev "Tim Aslat" <tim at spyderweb.com.au>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using FreeBSD on desktop for about 10 years.  I fell in love
> with the ports collection after running into binary package hell with
> Redhat linux in the early 2000s, and decided it would make an
> interesting desktop OS as well.
>
> My only problem with FreeBSD as a desktop is video drivers.  Nvidia are
> the only ones doing a half decent 3D accelerated desktop and I'm stuck
> with binary drivers.  I was hoping that with AMD open sourcing the
> drivers for ATI cards things would get better, but not luck on that
> front just yet.
>
> Also the fact that FreeBSD has root ZFS pool support makes things rather
> easy on the maintenance front.

Which is why I asked. FreeBSD seem a very serious crowd.

The video driver issue is to some extent shared across all unix-like
platforms, incl. OI

>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
>
>
> Hans J Albertsson wrote on 04/06/2015 23:17:
> > On this note, does anyone use FreeBSD/PC-BSD as a desktop?
> >
>
> --
> Tim Aslat <tim at spyderweb.com.au>
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