Howdy
I recently purchased a raspberry pi 3 model b
I loaded up FreeBSD on it built with crochet and it's great as a sorta server thing. Running top and seeing only like 10 items was pretty amazing.
I couldn't get xorg up and running though and that's sort of a problem, it seems to go back to the whole graphics stack being a mess on FreeBSD. After playing around with FreeBSD on the PI i loaded up rasbian, it's pretty neat lil thing, decent for what it does but I am sure that with FreeBSD and better graphics drivers FreeBSD would be a no brainer go to choice for more than just servers.
The more I look around it seems there's a lot of issues why graphics was left to wither away on FreeBSD and I can understand why some people would have the idea that FreeBSD is dropping desktop support.
I am kinda much raking here to see if there are others who have started or are interested in getting modern graphics up and running on FreeBSD linuxkpi guys need not apply unless your interested in doing the hard work to get proper kernel support for graphics and not trying to tern BSD into linux.
With modern graphics imagine if you could have hardware like the Surface Studio but running on top of a stable OS like FreeBSD.
I recently purchased a raspberry pi 3 model b
I loaded up FreeBSD on it built with crochet and it's great as a sorta server thing. Running top and seeing only like 10 items was pretty amazing.
I couldn't get xorg up and running though and that's sort of a problem, it seems to go back to the whole graphics stack being a mess on FreeBSD. After playing around with FreeBSD on the PI i loaded up rasbian, it's pretty neat lil thing, decent for what it does but I am sure that with FreeBSD and better graphics drivers FreeBSD would be a no brainer go to choice for more than just servers.
The more I look around it seems there's a lot of issues why graphics was left to wither away on FreeBSD and I can understand why some people would have the idea that FreeBSD is dropping desktop support.
I am kinda much raking here to see if there are others who have started or are interested in getting modern graphics up and running on FreeBSD linuxkpi guys need not apply unless your interested in doing the hard work to get proper kernel support for graphics and not trying to tern BSD into linux.
With modern graphics imagine if you could have hardware like the Surface Studio but running on top of a stable OS like FreeBSD.