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I think it's impractical to expect a software project, conceived from an english-speaking country, to prioritize multi-lingual support. I mean, which is more economically feasible; multilingual support from a projects conception, or simply other foreign users learning the basics of english? I'm...

systemd, Wayland, etc.. all badly designed, Red Hat vendor lock-in child projects. When systemDisease subsumed all of important userspace, and GNOME services (forcing all major distros to adopt it); I knew it was over. The IBM acquisition drove the final nail in the coffin for Linux...

GIMP and Krita are raster graphics editors. Inkscape is for vector graphics editing. I believe Krita does have support for vector editing though.

If only a Qt-based alternative to GIMP existed; we could probably leave GTK behind us. It's pretty bad IMO.

Precisely. Someone release the kraken and close this bad boy.

Then why didn't you just inquire about that to begin with? Instead of trying to incite a flamewar between two different systems. Like ralphbsz said earlier. You need to specify your particular use case. There are many categories that fall under the "desktop computing" space. For which a lot of...

You should really take a step back and understand the fundamental differences between FreeBSD and GNU/Linux; there's a huge gap in your knowledge there. This whole comparison is moot. Software support is a matter of corporate sponsorship and crowdsourcing. FreeBSD is not responsible for that...

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...