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Thu, 27 Aug 2009

1:49 PM - The problem with BSD on the desktop

Like many BSD developers, I'm forced to use other operating systems for other tasks.  Well that's not entirely accurate.  I like to use many operating systems, because I have a passion for them. But, at the same time I try to improve the BSD experience to get my own work done.  If I can get to a point that most of my tasks can be done within BSD and just run a VM for the few things I need to do in windows, great. 

This creates a few problems though.  First, I need to actually get a decent VM running on MidnightBSD.  Porting virtual box has been very slow.  Qemu has never been fast enough for my tastes.  VMware won't run at all.  Second, I need to come up with programs that can replace existing software I use or port that software when possible.  Today, I just ported the mysql administrator and query browser tools to MidnightBSD.  That's one less thing I need to worry about.  We still need openjdk so I can do work.  Firefox is running but it's only 3.0.x and I can't even call it that.  

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