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0 pointsdismalaf16d ago0 comments

Ish. Most FreeBSD installs still make use of stuff like Wayland and a lot of Linux parts.

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> Most FreeBSD installs still make use of stuff like Wayland and a lot of Linux parts.

No? Wayland is available but Xorg is the default.

FreeBSD doesn't install a display server on default so the choice is yours.

There is no GUI installation of FreeBSD so I am not sure what "linux parts" you are referring to. The installation uses curses which is ancient and has existed since the dawn of C, Unix. Abd what FreeBSD is. Is that what your referring to?

pkg is FreeBSD's package manager.

dismalafOP15d ago

Lol Red Hat had been X.org's largest contributor for years...

doublerabbit15d ago

Sure, but that doesn't make it "Linux stuff".

Xorg is a fork of XFree86 which was originally The XFree86 Project, Inc. for Unix Systems, which targeted 4.4BSD.

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justin6616d ago

> a lot of Linux parts

Anything outside of the stuff required to make a graphical desktop work?

dismalafOP16d ago

> Anything outside of the stuff required to make a graphical desktop work?

That's kinda big, no?

justin6615d ago

I think FreeBSD's slogan has been "The Power to Serve" roughly as long as we've been making jokes about The Year of Linux on the Desktop, so we're talking decades. I assume everyone has had plenty of time to make their peace with FreeBSD's mission being focused on the server.

The original question was of interest because, outside of the desktop, Linux does have some other stuff they've cooked up. It really would be interesting if some of that other stuff had jumped the fence. I think FreeBSD is as likely to adopt smf or launchd or something as they are to adopt systemd (not very likely in any case), hence my curiosity about whether something had happened.

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doublerabbit15d ago

What Linux parts are you referring to then?

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