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  1. Beastie7

    FreeBSD 15 probably will include KDE as DE installtion option

    It's literally an opt-in addition to the installer. No one is pointing a gun to your head forcing you to select "Yes". You can still continue on without it to a vanilla installation. You people object to this simple idea (that doesn't even touch the base system) but yet complain about FreeBSDs...
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    FreeBSD 15 probably will include KDE as DE installtion option

    - stable toolkit - stable ABI/API - great community - consistent UX/UI - kde frameworks (arguably the closest thing to Cocoa/Win32/BeOS API) - decent first party utilities for mere mortals - x11 love That said, I’m not a fan of the UI bloat in Plasma, but it’s a sane choice. It’s about time...
  3. Beastie7

    FreeBSD Needs a SystemD

    Another troll post. I swear this forum has been infiltrated.
  4. Beastie7

    general/other Server advice - migration to BSD or Debian Linux?

    Don't forget to search through freshports to confirm if what you need is available on FreeBSD. You can experiment with the Linuxulator too for Linux only binaries.
  5. Beastie7

    general/other Server advice - migration to BSD or Debian Linux?

    Whats the logic behind using Docker or NAS in a VM? That sort of defeats the purpose. A simple setup would be running all of your applications in a Jail(s) on top a bunch of ZFS datasets. If you required an app that only runs on Linux, then you can throw in Bhyve. With ZFS + Jails you get an...
  6. Beastie7

    kernel support for heterogeneous cores

    I managed to find this whitepaper about it. Look at references 15 and 16. The PDFs have to be downloaded so I can't link them here. Would that be a good starting point?
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    kernel support for heterogeneous cores

    The million dollar question.
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    kernel support for heterogeneous cores

    Take a look at this article here regarding the XNU kernel. Is there anything we could possible draw from its implementation? It seems its scheduler was enhanced to be aware of heterogenous cores alongside the debut of Apple Silicon. Unfortunately I don't have the chops the sift through darwin code.
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    kernel support for heterogeneous cores

    I think Intel maintains a bunch of stuff in their technical library. I was able to find a few PDFs about it; but i'm not sure if they're programmer level.
  10. Beastie7

    kernel support for heterogeneous cores

    The review mentions the Ryzen 9 3900X; isn't Zen a homogenous architecture? I wonder how they're going to handle ULEs scheduling with P/E cores on modern processors/SoCs. FreeBSD being a multi-purpose OS; I also wonder how the kernel will determine which type of workload will run on either core...
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    kernel support for heterogeneous cores

    Has the kernel ever been optimized for architectures like big.LITTLE, DynamIQ, or even Intel P/E Cores? I've noticed the RPI 5/Orange Pi 5 uses the Cortex A76; a successor to the A75 which introduced DynamIQ, but I'm not sure where FreeBSD stands with this type of architecture, or how well it...
  12. Beastie7

    Porting X11Libre to FreeBSD.

    You’re comparing Apples to Airplanes. Let’s leave our socio-political opinions and/or biases out of this.
  13. Beastie7

    Porting X11Libre to FreeBSD.

    Interesting. It seems the X.org maintainers themselves have been outright gatekeeping patches and improvements from contributors, for the past four years. Insane. Things make more sense now. I’m really looking forward to this port.
  14. Beastie7

    Porting X11Libre to FreeBSD.

    That should work. I believe there’s current work on graphical installer by the committers; I wonder if they'd include an install option like mentioned above. I think it’d be a good compromise between keeping vanilla clean and ease of configuration for people. You know it’s cold outside, when...
  15. Beastie7

    Porting X11Libre to FreeBSD.

    Xorg should be kept out of base, along with upstream Linux graphics stuff. Having “meta releases” should probably be maintained within a separate project or SIG. The way Ubuntu does it IMO.
  16. Beastie7

    Porting X11Libre to FreeBSD.

    Cart before the horse way of thinking. Code is a prerequisite to all of this. This statement alone contradicts the rest your post. Forking a display server is not some mundane task.
  17. Beastie7

    Porting X11Libre to FreeBSD.

    Please do not derail this thread. These naming conventions are purely technical.
  18. Beastie7

    GNOME to have stronger dependency on systemd

    I'm a fan of the simple UI of GNOME Shell; but the UX is a usability nightmare. Other than the Dock/Taskbar UX from mainstream desktops; gnome2 was probably the only desktop that set itself apart with its dual panel UX. Thankfully we have a thriving community around a fork of it. gnome2 + nimbus...
  19. Beastie7

    So what's next after AI?

    Can you spell Singularity? I certainly wouldn't want chips any where inside of my body. I do see a market for them for people with disabilities however. Like, restoring bodily functions or human senses with something planted just under the skin maybe. I've got it! Computerless Computing...
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