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I don't see that. A lot of various open source projects actually ditched gtk and ported their UIs to Qt. Win32/Cocoa exist in completely different worlds so they're irrelevant to the discussion of the open source desktop. A lot of engineering hours were put in to DWM and Quartz. That's fine...

It really is though. The whole GTK/GNOME/systemd/Wayland sandwich is practically control by our IBM/RedHat over lords. They have their tentacles on the entire userspace ecosystem outside the Linux kernel. That was their entire plan. So we can just forget about GTK. Now if Qt and Firefox/Chrome...

pkg on macOS would be nice. Both macports and homebrew are cumbersome to use in my experience. homebrews CLI is badly designed and it's made in Ruby.. yuck.

Maybe some brave soul could spin off Weston into an API based compositor as a drop replacement in for the swaths of existing X11 WMs on FreeBSD. Who wouldn’t want a stable API/ABI to develop on? That’d be interesting. Probably the only thing keeping Linux relevant in the enterprise. IMO It has...

WPF/SwiftUI are vastly superior to anything that exists in open source; so that's hardly a problem. Mind you, I'm referring to the consumer desktop here. RHEL thus -> Ubuntu, Oracle Linux, and OpenSUSE are progressing towards Wayland by default. Even the OpenJDK folks are inching towards...

The entire desktop driver and user space ecosystem is controlled by Linux upstream. If the GTK and Qt Projects ever decide to drop their X11 backends; we have no choice but to follow suit. This will get worse should Firefox/Chrome do the same. IBM, thus Oracle/Canonical/Suse are stewarding this...

Agreed. At some point this will be a serious issue we'll need to address. For the topic though; i'd like in-kernel SMB server (with ZFS integration and full support for NFSv4 ACLs) better zfs/vm integration (ZFS ARC+mmap/page cache) SMF (init/rc.d is old and archaic) bhyve on aarch64

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.