GhostBSD adopting Xlibre

[blackbird9]

Xlibre is getting some adoption. Looks like it's getting stable.

GhostBSD planning to ditch Xorg for XLibre

: FreeBSD's friendliest desktop distro bets on the controversial fork

www.theregister.com

 

[mer]

Yep, vermaden has a link or two on his Valuable News from earlier this week. Nice to see that there are more sources for the news

 

[blackbird9]

I missed the 'valuable news' this week, must go and look. The Reg has a big write-up on it; supportive of Xlibre. Some interesting comments on the article too.

 

[mer]

One of his links there was words from GhostBSD founder about the why of it.

 

[blackbird9]

Well, it's at least some kind of a vote of confidence that Xlibre is ready for 'prime time', or good enough to be trialled, at least. Which has to be a good thing.

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

Very old news.

A

Thread 'GhostBSD Makes XLibre Its Default Display Server'

Jan 23, 2026

Info:

Default GhostBSD to XLibre by ericbsd · Pull Request #259 · ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build

We will release the next release of GhostBSD with XLibre due to the upcoming Xorg rebase. Thanks, @b-aaz, for your work on Xlibre ports! Also, thanks to the @X11Libre team! Summary by Sourcery Enha...

github.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014513591433474392

View: https://x.com/Ericbsd/status/2014513591433474392

I don't have an opinion. Have fun commenting. (I don't know why I write things like this. The megalomaniac in me, I guess).

Edit (pasted from my comment below):

BTW, I believe it's forum user baaz who the main developer of GhostBSD thanks for their port.

• AlfredoLlaquet
• Replies: 7
• Forum: Off-Topic

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[mer]

Well, it's at least some kind of a vote of confidence that Xlibre is ready for 'prime time', or good enough to be trialled, at least. Which has to be a good thing.

Agree completely.

 

[blackbird9]

Very old news.

A

Thread 'GhostBSD Makes XLibre Its Default Display Server'

Jan 23, 2026

Info:

Default GhostBSD to XLibre by ericbsd · Pull Request #259 · ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build

We will release the next release of GhostBSD with XLibre due to the upcoming Xorg rebase. Thanks, @b-aaz, for your work on Xlibre ports! Also, thanks to the @X11Libre team! Summary by Sourcery Enha...

github.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014513591433474392

View: https://x.com/Ericbsd/status/2014513591433474392

I don't have an opinion. Have fun commenting. (I don't know why I write things like this. The megalomaniac in me, I guess).

Edit (pasted from my comment below):

BTW, I believe it's forum user baaz who the main developer of GhostBSD thanks for their port.

• AlfredoLlaquet
• Replies: 7
• Forum: Off-Topic

• 
• 

I guess when it hits the Register, you know it's really happening.

 

[scottro]

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[mer]

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