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OpenBSD developers: Landry Breuil
- mulander 11y agoYou can find older interviews at http://beastie.pl/tag/wywiad/ http://beastie.pl/tag/wywiad/ or by checking out my recent submission history for HN ;) Assuming that the server survives the hn death hug ;)
- fcambus 11y agoI have been reading all the interviews so far, it's been a great serie! Wondering how many more interviews are planned? Hopefully a lot more, that's super informative and motivating.
- mulander 11y agoWe have 6 more queued :) Could be more if some devs decide to send out a later answer ;)
- throwaway2048 11y agoI do wish you asked more specific, technical questions, rather than the 80% generic fluff. But i recognise that might require quite a lot more framiliarity with a dev's work.
- ZoF 11y agoHugged to death for me atm, made it about halfway through them, great series.
- rifung 11y agoI'm a bit surprised he uses it for his desktop. I was always under the impression that BSD is great for servers and the like but not so great for normal use. Is BSD a suitable alternative to Linux to use for my development laptop?
- stsp 11y agoWhy would it not be? One of the project goals is to "Provide the best development platform possible." http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html
- parennoob 11y agoDoes OpenBSD have any "certified" laptops where everything is more-or-less guaranteed to work out of the box? Something like that would go a long way towards increasing adoption.
- mulander 11y agoEssentially that's 'thinkpad' & anything else from lenovo coming as second. I also saw a large uptick of Dell laptops (the latitude series). Now, the thing with laptops is - they all lie. One model can ship with 5 different wifi chips and they are never provided on the spec sheet - same for other components. So you have the highest chance with specific models but it still depends on the guts that were shipped with your specific device.
- mulander 11y agoActually OpenBSD is really great for a desktop especially on laptops - the only downside is almost non existent nvidia support, though you will be fine with intel & most radeons.
- keithpeter 11y agoThe interviewee is involved with the xfce4 ports/packages and by amazing coincidence I'm using that DE under OpenBSD 5.8 now on my old Thinkpad. All works fine and I forget which free system I'm actually using sometimes. Some desktop differences from Linux: no graphical wifi manager that I'm aware of, there are various scripts floating about, or you just use ifconfig from a terminal as root. NTFS not writeable (can read fine). On the upside, sound just works as does suspend &c.