Updated late this week because of circumstances.
- Michael W. Lucas is appearing at PenguinCon.
- Do you use Kerberos or SRP in libssl? Ted Unangst wants to know. (Thanks, Amit Kulkarni)
- Speaking of which, OpenSSH no longer requires OpenSSL.
- OpenBSD 5.5 is out.
- BSD for embedded devices?
- The FreeBSD Foundation has a spring fundraising campaign started.
- PC-BSD has a FAQ up for their new Lumina desktop environment.Writing your own desktop environment is a lot of work. Supporting all the Linuxisms in the existing ones is possibly worse…
- pkgsrc Perl package status is now automatically generated.
- Peek and poke freely on FreeBSD.
- PC-BSD’s new AppCafe handles package management – or at least the interface. I haven’t looked hard enough to know if it’s using pkg.
- CheriBSD is feeding back.
- OpenSSH is getting pulled into parts?
- /dev/full is always what it says it is. (related: lindev(4) is gone.)
- OpenBSD 5.5 is out. Here’s the signing policy that goes with it.
Are there any WMs around that don’t have any Linuxisms? Openbox? Fluxbox? FVWM?
@Anonymous: Having tightly integrated environment may appeal to some users (people not interested in building their perfect desktop, corporate environment, etc). Window managers don’t really fill this gap.
@Anonymous: cwm(1)
I agree 80% with the FAQ about Lumina. It is indeed a shame that some desktop environments don’t fully work under *BSD. For instance, GNOME 3.12 on OpenBSD has a few things missing that would be there under Linux: working sound control, user accounts GUI, a network manager, and so on.
But. OpenBSD _does_ have GNOME 3.12. That’s something. So things aren’t quite so dire — not yet. anyway. I have no idea why FreeBSD doesn’t have GNOME 3 in ports by now, but I am not so sure that “Linuxisms” deserve all the blame.
P..S. As usual, thanks for the blog.
I don’t know that part of the reason for Gnome 3 not being present isn’t because of so many people hating the interface change that they made in addition to the performance drops from GTK2 to GTK3. With regard to OpenBSD, I wonder how different things are for it compared to other *nix systems due to Xenocara. It might be worth figuring out at what version the major desktop environments are going to require systemd, which would also be seemingly a stopping point for their continued usage in BSDs.