Coupla questions on DragonFly as a desktop OS

[John Long]

On Mon, 2018-10-29 at 09:55 +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote:
> On 10/28/18, John Long <codeblue at inbox.lv> wrote:
> 
> > Acrobat reader: I have a lot of manuals in .pdf format and I
> > haven't
> 
> Linux or Windows build? Afair Linux support was removed a few years
> ago, dunno if DF ports have Wine.

The older acroreads still work fine on Solaris (SPARC and Intel) and
Linux. I have copies saved in case they disappear from the net. I guess
the PDF format is pretty stable.

> 
> > Virtualization: Is there a way to run Linux in a VM?
> 
> Unfortunately no. Generic virtualization is not supported.

Ok.

> 
> > Are web browsers like Opera and Chrome available? Don't get me
> > wrong, I
> > hate google bitterly, but Chrome's translation feature is handy
> > when it
> > works. I like Opera's UI but I can live with Firefox.
> 
> Chromium should be in dports.

Thanks.

> 
> > Is the JFS filesystem supported? I have a bunch of external drives
> > using JFS.
> 
> No.

Ok. 

I have an install on HAMMER2 and so far the results are kinda uneven.
Firefox and Firefox-esr from binary packages both segfault
occasionally. I was happy with the pretty huge number of packages
available and not having to choose a mirror makes it easy to get
started. user management is way surprising compared to Solaris and
OpenBSD, the pw man page is making my eyes hurt ;)

I had to bring up a new OS on this box because I'm moving some hardware
around. It has two drives so I have dragonfly 5.2.2 on one drive and
I'm dual booting Fedora 28 on the other. 

I have time now to get any issues resolved without pressure. I really
would like to get away from Linux as much as possible. It works
perfectly well and has tons of features. But I prefer the BSD approach.
And I hope HAMMER2 will be a good replacement (for me) for ZFS since
Solaris is quickly becoming impossible to use as a desktop although S10
for a server is still quite wonderful.

Thanks,

/jl