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The Linuxulator is just a system call translator that allows running Linux binaries on FreeBSD, unmodified. Because the Linux community doesn't care to write portable software, third party developers are forced to use linux centric services and interfaces. Just look at the software hosted under...

If you want relinquish control of dependencies to yourself, I would suggest creating your own repository, and then build that specific package from scratch using ports. Or just build it locally. You can "lock" a package (or it's dependencies) from being touched upon an upgrade or update, but...

The PinePhone Pro seems like a better device to experiment with IMO.

Without usable drivers and a touch UI to interact with the device. This whole idea is moot. Qualcomm does not sponsor FreeBSD.

There's your answer. I believe the fusefs-ext2 driver can be used to access ext3/ext4 external mounts as well.

Yeah.. Drivers & Firmware model Power Management ACPI Integration Service Management (rc.d is slow and adhoc for desktop/laptop) I/O Scheduling Inter-process Communication ..and that's just touching the kernel. Oh, and applications! By all means, have fun shoehorning a server/embedded system...

I don't like how launchd cobbles a lot of daemons together but I understand why Apple did it. For devices that require dynamic power management (laptops, tablets, etc.); I believe that was the motive behind its design. IIRC SMF allows compatibility with running rc scripts, but you're limited in...

Although we have first class support for ZFS. We still lack proper ARC/VM subsystem integration (which Oracle Solaris has); which greatly affects write IO performance. The majority of that disparity is technical, but part of that is licensing. I believe a rewrite of the VM subsystem would...

From my own limited research; it seems SMF is somewhat tied to the kernel. Specifically for features like service contracts and instances. Being able to run multiple versions of the same application, or completely restart userland without touching the kernel is pretty useful. I figured having...

SMF is a really cool technology. It'd be a nice addition to FreeBSD.

What exactly are you trying to figure out? Aside from a few fundamental differences (or features); BSD and System V are essentially cousins. BSD being an extension to original Research Unix.

Hypocrisy and exceptionalism. This is no better than the international atrocities committed by G7 or the CCP. Keep politics out of it.

Of course. It's near impossible to unseal what could possibly be under an NDA. But we can extrapolate context from behavior; especially given the current geo-political landscape. Stuff like this reeks of sketchy lawfare IMO. Keep politics out of it. Over-the-counter ambiguity from GKH doesn't...

Although these projects are based in the US, they are international in it's development. Geopolitics should stay out of open source development. This nonsense is going fracture and split the Linux community. There is something to be said about 501c3 (used by the FreeBSD Foundation) vs 501c6...

Why would you do that? That's probably the issue. The system is bottlenecked.

And that's fine. But people are missing the forest for the trees in this thread. People use desktops to get work done with GUI applications. NeXTOS wouldn't have been as successful as it was at the time if it didn't have a usable desktop experience (with applications) that inherits all the...

This thread is hilarious. All this talk about upstream Linux projects as if we have any control or influence on the matter. Who cares. The Linux community controls all GUI experiences used on FreeBSD. How can we improve FreeBSD-based grassroots efforts like helloSystem? I'd wager we'd probably...

Terrible idea. We're better off forking KDE Frameworks and turning that into a stable API application developers can hack against. Especially for kernel level features. IBM pretty much owns GNOME/GTK.

Shh! You're going to enrage the FreeBSD "desktop" zealots here with that logic. Btw, the new iPhone mirroring feature in Sequoia is a game changer. The usability gap widens.

Completely different user demographic. Regular users care. I long for modular Apple Silicon, but their unified memory architecture doesn’t allow for that flexibility.