Alain - the student did clearly state that s/he wanted to enable japanese input.Everything is impossible until it is done. But you must have something specific in mind.
One can not make a new distro because of a color of background, or special keyboard character.
ghostscript7-jpnfont-7.07_13 Japanese font support for Ghostscript 7.x
ja-alias-fonts-1.0_12 Meta-port which setups Japanese fonts
ja-font-aozoramincho-0.1_2 Aozora Mincho Japanese TrueType fonts
ja-font-cica-5.0.2 Cica Japanese monospaced fonts for programming
ja-font-genjyuugothic-20150607_2 GenJyuuGothic Japanese TrueType fonts
ja-font-genshingothic-20150607_3 GenShinGothic Japanese TrueType fonts
ja-font-ipa-00303_7 IPA Japanese fonts
ja-font-ipa-uigothic-00203_5 IPA Japanese fonts, UIGothic
ja-font-ipaex-00401 IPAex Japanese fonts
ja-font-ipamjm-00601 IPAmj Mincho Japanese fonts
ja-font-jisx0213-20040425_8 Japanese jisx0213 fonts
ja-font-kochi-20030809_6 Kochi Japanese TrueType font
ja-font-koruri-20180915 Koruri Japanese TrueType fonts
ja-font-marumoji-1.0_11 Japanese marumoji fonts
ja-font-mgenplus-20150602_1 Mgen+ Japanese TrueType fonts
ja-font-migmix-1.0.20130617_5 Mixed Japanese font with IPA Gothic and M-plus outline
ja-font-migu-1.0.20130617_5 Another Japanese font set based on MigMix
ja-font-mikachan-9.1 Handwritten Japanese TrueType fonts by Mika-chan
ja-font-mona-ipa-1.0.8_8 IPA Japanese TrueType fonts with Mona font
ja-font-motoya-al-0.0.20100921_6 Free Japanese fonts by MOTOYA
ja-font-mplus-ipa-1.0.20060520.p1_6 Mixed Japanese font with IPA, M-plus outline, and Bitstream Vera
ja-font-nasu-20141215_3 Nasu Japanese TrueType fonts
ja-font-rounded-mgenplus-20150602_1 Rounded Mgen+ Japanese TrueType fonts
ja-font-sazanami-20040629_7 Sazanami Japanese TrueType fonts
ja-font-shinonome-0.9.11.p1_7 Shinonome Japanese fonts, 12/14/16 dots
ja-font-std-0.0.20191230 Japanese Standard Fonts
ja-font-takao-003.02.01_6 Improved IPA Japanese fonts
ja-font-ume-0.0.670 Ume Japanese TrueType fonts
ja-font-vlgothic-20200720 VLGothic Japanese TrueType fonts
ja-ngraph-fonts-1.0_3 Japanese Font Setup for math/ngraph
ja-xpdf-jafont-4.02 Japanese font support for xpdf
root@aladin:/home/x #
FreeBSD is already an OS. You can't make another OS based on something that's already an OS. The only thing you can do is package FreeBSD with ports and packages that already exist or that you create.I want to make an OS based on FreeBSD.
pkg search font | grep -i "japa"
Code:ghostscript7-jpnfont-7.07_13 Japanese font support for Ghostscript 7.x ja-alias-fonts-1.0_12 Meta-port which setups Japanese fonts ja-font-aozoramincho-0.1_2 Aozora Mincho Japanese TrueType fonts ja-font-cica-5.0.2 Cica Japanese monospaced fonts for programming ja-font-genjyuugothic-20150607_2 GenJyuuGothic Japanese TrueType fonts ja-font-genshingothic-20150607_3 GenShinGothic Japanese TrueType fonts ja-font-ipa-00303_7 IPA Japanese fonts ja-font-ipa-uigothic-00203_5 IPA Japanese fonts, UIGothic ja-font-ipaex-00401 IPAex Japanese fonts ja-font-ipamjm-00601 IPAmj Mincho Japanese fonts ja-font-jisx0213-20040425_8 Japanese jisx0213 fonts ja-font-kochi-20030809_6 Kochi Japanese TrueType font ja-font-koruri-20180915 Koruri Japanese TrueType fonts ja-font-marumoji-1.0_11 Japanese marumoji fonts ja-font-mgenplus-20150602_1 Mgen+ Japanese TrueType fonts ja-font-migmix-1.0.20130617_5 Mixed Japanese font with IPA Gothic and M-plus outline ja-font-migu-1.0.20130617_5 Another Japanese font set based on MigMix ja-font-mikachan-9.1 Handwritten Japanese TrueType fonts by Mika-chan ja-font-mona-ipa-1.0.8_8 IPA Japanese TrueType fonts with Mona font ja-font-motoya-al-0.0.20100921_6 Free Japanese fonts by MOTOYA ja-font-mplus-ipa-1.0.20060520.p1_6 Mixed Japanese font with IPA, M-plus outline, and Bitstream Vera ja-font-nasu-20141215_3 Nasu Japanese TrueType fonts ja-font-rounded-mgenplus-20150602_1 Rounded Mgen+ Japanese TrueType fonts ja-font-sazanami-20040629_7 Sazanami Japanese TrueType fonts ja-font-shinonome-0.9.11.p1_7 Shinonome Japanese fonts, 12/14/16 dots ja-font-std-0.0.20191230 Japanese Standard Fonts ja-font-takao-003.02.01_6 Improved IPA Japanese fonts ja-font-ume-0.0.670 Ume Japanese TrueType fonts ja-font-vlgothic-20200720 VLGothic Japanese TrueType fonts ja-ngraph-fonts-1.0_3 Japanese Font Setup for math/ngraph ja-xpdf-jafont-4.02 Japanese font support for xpdf root@aladin:/home/x #
it's like taking KDE and Ubuntu and calling it Kubuntu... that kind of thing has been done before. Proliferation of derivatives is a bit problematic, IMHO.FreeBSD is already an OS. You can't make another OS based on something that's already an OS. The only thing you can do is package FreeBSD with ports and packages that already exist or that you create.
That was… a while ago.FreeBSD has the support of an entire department at a major university (B in FreeBSD stands for Berkeley)
?that received a truckload of money for R&D.
Yes you can make another OS based on something that's already an OS - Just get ahold of the kernel sources, tinker with them, replace modules/components as you see fit. If you know how to do it, it's even possible to replace the default /bin/ee editor or disable stuff you don't need (like the /bin/ifconfig, j/k) or add in Orange Filesystem, or the Calamares installer or even make the whole thing available on a Snapdragon chipset... you can do a truckload of things if you know how to do it or have the patience to learn how to do it.FreeBSD is already an OS. You can't make another OS based on something that's already an OS. The only thing you can do is package FreeBSD with ports and packages that already exist or that you create.
To use FreeBSD with Japanese input, I presume this is already possible with--as I said--already available packages. I also presume it can be done better.
Shkhln already corrected that: The group at Berkeley that created BSD Unix existed from ~1980 to 1995. DARPA funding for it had been slowly drying up, and completely ended in 1995. It had never been large; I think at its peak, CSRG had about 5-10 staff and a dozen or two dozen grad students. Compare that to Linux: Even pre-RedHat, IBM had several thousand engineers working in its "Linux Technology Center", with similar numbers at Oracle, RedHat, Intel, and so on. I remember well when Berkeley CSRG was completely shut down, because several friends of mine suddenly had to look for jobs, but fortunately LBL had just received a large windfall from the DoE, so a few people from CS on campus moved up to the lab. That was the same time that I left academia myself.FreeBSD has the support of an entire department at a major university (B in FreeBSD stands for Berkeley) that received a truckload of money for R&D.
I'm a student in Japan, and I'd like to create a FreeBSD-based distribution.
I simply want to make it, and I want to do it personally.
Here's an excerpt from https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd translated with https://translate.google.com for comparison (emphasis mine):On the contrary, this is a suspiciously good result for an automatic translation.
It is an OS that can be said to be the mainstream of UNIX in terms of genealogy, and has a track record of being used as a server for Hotmail etc. in the past, but nowadays most of it has been replaced by Linux. Regarding the current usage situation, the share of the desktop OS is 0.01% or less and cannot be measured [4], and the share of the server OS is about 1% [5], which can be said to be a bubble, and the severe situation continues. .. This has led to a decline in both quality and quantity of developers, and it has been pointed out that many security problems have been left unattended, and security experts call it a "dying OS". [6] We are in a situation where even the significance of its existence and future continuity are questioned.
sudo bectl create kde-install
sudo pkg install -y xorg x11/kde5 sddm plasma5-sddm-kcm
# modify rc.conf to autostart sddm (for kde)
cat << 'EOF' >> /etc/rc.conf
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
sddm_enable="YES"
EOF
# modify xinit.rc for startx type starts
cat << "EOF" >.xinitrc
exec /usr/local/bin/startplasma-x11
EOF
sudo reboot
# check kde's working ok (remember to not select a Wayland Session)
sudo bectl destroy -o kde-install
Hald has been dead for some time now....
hald_enable="YES"
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