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Old 6th September 2010
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Originally Posted by mechanic View Post
OpenBSD doesn't put any real work into developing user interfaces, so the Gnome desktop is old, Firefox is only at version 3.0.something and so on. Lots of things users expect to come with Gnome aren't there.
Nothing could be further from the truth. It is an insult for OpenBSD people who spent hundreds of hours fixing Gnome crap. The Gnome is up to date. The only missing things are the one which are not usable on OpenBSD due to the fact that you actually have manually to configure files or the one that are so Linux specific that are beyond the hope to be ported to OpenBSD.

You are also spreading FUD about Firefox. The latest Firefox is ported to OpenBSD. OpenBSD project however keeps around Firefox 3.5.xxx because of Java. Namely Firefox is so buggy and SUN Java plug-ins do not work on Firefox 3.6.xxx. Since many people do need Java we keep 3.5.xxx in ports. There is a serious effort on the way to port IcedTea Java to OpenBSD (or should I say just remaining parts which will enable browser plugins). after which we will ditch 3.5.xxx completely.

That was very dishonest and incompetent post for the lack of better wording. One of the worst I have seen around here.
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