Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:19:43 +0200 From: fml <tetrosalame@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? Message-ID: <20170719151943.GA1859@avalon.thwn> In-Reply-To: <CAN7_dzeDRZvH_wqZFmq6vxC%2BAdxwc-inuV8BVVmevs0xVbTpag@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN7_dzeDRZvH_wqZFmq6vxC%2BAdxwc-inuV8BVVmevs0xVbTpag@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:32:43PM -0300, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: > Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? You know best. For my use case, I can say FreeBSD works great. How about my use case? Well, I'm a lawyer and use it for text processing, web browsing and to connect to some reserved networks (read: justice). Desktops used by lawyers must (or, should...) comply to data protection regulations (in my case, EU Regulation) and FreeBSD implements great technologies I deploy: - data encryption (geli; if you're unfortunate enough, gbde); - different user roles (unix users and jails); - different data access profiles (mac_mls; mac_biba deployment in progress...have still to please Xorg); - backups (the usual suspects; since I need encrypted off-site backups I'm investigating Tarsnap, avaiable as package); - access logging and logging of administrators' actions (syslog, sudo and the right Michael W. Lucas book). So, here's how FreeBSD serves me as a desktop OS and I'm happy with it. f.
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