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AFAIK, I haven't seen anyone with FreeBSD and working X on a mobile device. Just FreeBSD itself. I can't recall the post here though. You might be able to find something on the postmarketOS wiki. That's where I'd look at least.

I'm a huge fan of Qtile. It's basically XMonad but entirely written in Python. Configuration is done in Python also. Clean, minimal, full featured, and easy to use.

Interesting. Have you considered the PineTab? Maybe you could start there. I believe we have support for the PINE A64 inside of it.

Seriously. How do you expect users to interact with such a device? Where are you going to acquire drivers to provide the functions you need? I'm not saying this is a bad idea, but it's simply not practical for an open source community. The reasons why Android is present in a lot of embedded...

What about just driving around, getting to know your environment? Nothing beats memory after you've learned all backroads. Not even my iPhone + SkyNet Maps.

If you don't have the desire to build and configure a desktop from a vanilla shell (with a completely different userspace than Linux), FreeBSD most likely isn't for you. There is no hand holding involved here. Stick with Mint (Debian), or get a Mac.

Yeah, Poul-Henning Kamp (Creator of Jails) pretty much concluded why it’s an overall bad idea. His arguments in that thread are solid.

Back in high school I was tasked with setting up a basic web server with no instructions or oversight. All I had was google. I was given two distros to choose from; Ubuntu or Fedora Core. I chose Ubuntu because the gnome2 theme, at the time, looked "cooler". It felt alien as hell, but...

It's very relevent. Because the design of the system matters. BSD Unix was conceived by a group of researchers who wanted to add improved extensions to Version 5 Unix. They kept the design ethos laid out by AT&T. Linux/systemd/etc were mere poor reinventions of already existed. So poor, that...

You’re onto something. I’ll consider experimenting with that idea vs saturating the thunderbolt lane on its own. Alright. So, I managed to find a small Intel NUC by Asus that has Thunderbolt 4 built in. Which also happens to have Bluetooth 5.3 and WiFi 6E built in as well. Giggity. My approach...

You have an incredibly bad habit of attributing statements to things people actually never said or meant. Or being a habitual contrarian (and often hypocritical) for the mere sake of it; making assumptions. Maybe you should stop that? By the amount of post you have and time you spend on here...

The CHERI Project doesn't get enough mention around here or in the greater open source world. They're doing a lot of really game changing stuff there. Since they're addressing the problem at the lowest level; it really makes this whole debate regarding memory safety and Rust moot IMO. Brought...

People who want proper Unix, instead of an open source Windows clone.

C/C++ isn't going anywhere. For a long time. Sh**ty developers and rush to market practices are source of these issues. You can blame the banking industry for that.

That defeats the whole purpose of using Thunderbolt. The idea here is to saturate the 40Gbps interface with a fast, high capacity ZFS array using one cable.

I thought about that also. But I figured for us mere mortals this idea would be cleaner, and more simple. Once networking is involved I have to worry about 10gb hubs, switches, cabling, power and all. I just want this to be idiot proof with a simple script to setup in the end.

Precisely. Except I'm looking to assemble a barebones system with maybe 4 drives and just a thunderbolt HBA. If i can find a motherboard with built in thunderbolt ports; that'd be even better.

No problem at all mate. I recall Scott Long previously working on Thunderbolt code some time ago, but that's as far as my knowledge goes. I think his work was mainly done on laptops too. I'm not sure where to start for accessing the chipset itself on the HBA. Appreciate it. That'll give me...

I'm fully aware of what a DAS is. This will basically be a whitebox raid-array, connected via thunderbolt. Think QNAP, Synology, etc. I appreciate your input, but it doesn't answer my question. I'm open to real suggestions. thanks.

Some reading for you.