Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:35:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "fml" <tetrosalame@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? Message-ID: <63615.128.135.52.6.1500478520.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20170719151943.GA1859@avalon.thwn> References: <CAN7_dzeDRZvH_wqZFmq6vxC%2BAdxwc-inuV8BVVmevs0xVbTpag@mail.gmail.com> <20170719151943.GA1859@avalon.thwn>
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On Wed, July 19, 2017 10:19 am, fml wrote: > 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); You can also look into bacula or its fork bareos. I use bacula for quite some time, and plan to switch to bareos hopefully soon. Just my $0.02 Valeri > - 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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