As described in a previous post, I've gone the road of OpenBSD on my old, but primary workstation. I have half a new rig sitting in the corner of the office, but I'm not done with this old beast (that this post is being composed on, actually) quite yet.

While I had hoped that FreeBSD via the PC-BSD slick-up would be the saving grace of features and stability, it was not. Not even close. When my coworker famously (in our office) complains that "Linux" will never be a true desktop competitor for the masses, I imagine he's reviewing a video of me trying to work with PC-BSD. It seems so simple and functional and "all-there",and yet it is not. I'll admit, the samba-client surfing, flash-based video fun was awesome, but not when it crashed. And it crashed and crashed. It would crash two times before it crashed two times.

But this post is not about PC-BSD, that was a prior one. This one is dedicated to my "open road" approach with my OpenBSD installation. It's not so truly "open road" as I might sometimes portray it, as I've got a couple years of amateur/work experience with the OS (even as a desktop), but there's so much I don't know. I really will be experiencing quite a bit of new challenges with making OpenBSD work as my desktop. But I would prefer hammering out OpenBSD for my home use than to use an already-hammered-out-but-not-stable PC-BSD.