From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 19 15:35:27 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E63C7FF05 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:35:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA774841F2 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:35:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 0BEBECB8CEE; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:35:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:35:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <63615.128.135.52.6.1500478520.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20170719151943.GA1859@avalon.thwn> References: <20170719151943.GA1859@avalon.thwn> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:35:20 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "fml" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:35:27 -0000 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++