From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 19 15:19:49 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 8CB88C7F908 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:19:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tetrosalame@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oi0-x22a.google.com (mail-oi0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CAE7836AF for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:19:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tetrosalame@gmail.com) Received: by mail-oi0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id p188so3807414oia.0 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 08:19:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=3VnrDYwXajNOyKQg9PjXVJAyIRKhRMUIPtGMKX37vh0=; b=LfvugSde7h2u4caxLrYpO83SH6/lOc7dx9IbolL+c7Us+TkXC+zGaq/i/IEIe3P5UU 8r8AjFeuaQBiznoK80S/UkXw4muSIGzwXWec+jWOgQZzk6Vwnqfhv8mW4OuPKCmhNxs+ mFgucS4aNGwFgWDIYUJWBGdukPQJwKkPICH5c87iQaJ08as6WG33XDUyvdwZeMZjobGn x5Ys5OnwjrmeTIzyJanifMM1MNfegNW38Bhl6qIVlQqEvsAuEwoBJ+hGGX6FrQrp683L +iZm7gdcAIAzaiu54E/9VJZFUhNdvjrGyX7cAv0BpSiR8RpB+fAsz8s++uc7aGg6RQOf RffQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=3VnrDYwXajNOyKQg9PjXVJAyIRKhRMUIPtGMKX37vh0=; b=PST9PLNhZGYv8vahgSLq4t+PcdRSLSLbJasTCubds1IsK/q9f4AssY7O9F7zkcK+Re siyIChvcpB9x9gswVKqELT0yftNOCIYGmHXiW0WshHZBXLV9N3PVP6u+FE1KzONV8cN1 kqgwN7nI0KoYc1Nr3YDA+YYeepaUMBcL7tHbur1E9olwBc4o+DvFNc2rZf+MZ09MxVwc 3fsdfN3Hw13pbKfSNCCXoLIVJqjUl13qZuUl0E20xDfbm+RP7FLotlR1SkqYP0Q/UHtz wQvOV360xBrFVigQMk7oF++KIZYlduyQiU/3etk8S1MCbs8KTCd4INgJ0fzDnVpZ+BK6 t5JQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw111h1OCYs5sFtQooCESx81BHwCDIm8v5hIkF7ImWZKxvOzUZz93C kV3sGmko0AOo16tilWg= X-Received: by 10.202.80.66 with SMTP id e63mr2301018oib.152.1500477588077; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 08:19:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avalon.thwn (host105-185-dynamic.9-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it. [87.9.185.105]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k203sm100437oia.24.2017.07.19.08.19.46 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 08:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avalon.thwn (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by avalon.thwn (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 596969c3 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:19:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:19:43 +0200 From: fml To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? Message-ID: <20170719151943.GA1859@avalon.thwn> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 15:19:49 -0000 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.