Year Of The BSD Desktop? There's Going To Be A BSD Desktop Conference At Least

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  • phoronix
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    • Jan 2007
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    Year Of The BSD Desktop? There's Going To Be A BSD Desktop Conference At Least

    Phoronix: Year Of The BSD Desktop? There's Going To Be A BSD Desktop Conference At Least

    Technical BSD conferences aren't quite as common as the many Linux conferences these days. For the BSD conferences that do happen they tend to be more general in nature than carrying a desktop focus. But being announced this week was GhostBSDCon 2025 as a forthcoming developer conference largely focused on desktop use of this FreeBSD-derived distribution...

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  • User29
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2023
    • 250

    #2
    oh c'mon

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    • mxan
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2022
      • 291

      #3
      OpenBSD already works well enough as a desktop BSD system... purely because it's the only one where the graphics drivers are reasonably up-to-date and Wi-Fi actually works.

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      • Jumbotron
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2015
        • 1266

        #4
        SMH….we’ve been having “The Year of Desktop BSD” since October 1988. That’s’ when Steve Jobs, newly booted from Apple, introduced the NeXT workstation with NeXTSTEP OS. And he brought over NeXTSTEP when he was rehired to save Apple in the 90s where it was transformed into OS X now known as MacOS.

        I know that XNU, the kernel of NeXTSTEP OS and now MacOS is a hybrid kernel and stands for “X is Not Unix”, that’s just them being cute. Except for the Mach part of the kernel the entire API stack, system calls, networking, file systems, sockets, libraries and POSIX compliance is all BSD. Even userland is BSD. And the Mach portion, while not BSD derived, was initially developed pre-NeXTSTEP as a replacement, binary compatible kernel for BSD.

        And as far as I know MacOS is the only POSIX certified consumer desktop operating system. No BSD today can make that claim nor any Linux distribution or even Android for that matter.

        And if MacOS is still not “Unix” enough for you then just install Homebrew and get all the tools and libraries Apple leaves out. In fact three of the top people at the Homebrew just formed a company in order to make Homebrew easier to setup and manage in the enterprise. It’s called “Workbrew” and they just released v1.0. Amongst its niceties is a GUI console for managing Homebrew assets. They have a free tier along with other paid tiers.

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        • mrg666
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2023
          • 1090

          #5
          Originally posted by mxan View Post
          OpenBSD already works well enough as a desktop BSD system... purely because it's the only one where the graphics drivers are reasonably up-to-date and Wi-Fi actually works.
          You mean those drivers that are ported from Linux don't work in Linux? Don't reply idiot, it was not a question.

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          • mrg666
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2023
            • 1090

            #6
            I hope that absurd conference is at least held somewhere nice to have a good time.

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            • Volta
              Senior Member
              • Apr 2019
              • 2284

              #7
              Originally posted by mrg666 View Post

              You mean those drivers that are ported from Linux don't work in Linux? Don't reply idiot, it was not a question.
              He meant BSDs. Not Linux.

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              • Volta
                Senior Member
                • Apr 2019
                • 2284

                #8
                Originally posted by Jumbotron View Post
                And as far as I know MacOS is the only POSIX certified consumer desktop operating system. No BSD today can make that claim nor any Linux distribution or even Android for that matter.
                MacOS is trash, so it doesn't matter if it's POSIX certified or not. POSIX sucks in many things as well.

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                • skeevy420
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2017
                  • 8670

                  #9
                  The Year of the BSD Desktop won't happen until they have graphics driver and Wine parity with Linux. The things that make Linux as a desktop nice is that we can run practically all FOSS software and Windows programs work relatively well. The BSDs only offer the FOSS software and not was well of Wine support due to the graphics lagging behind.

                  The BSDs clearly have the potential. Jumbotron did a good write up with what Apple has done and Sony has turned it into a proprietary gaming and multimedia OS. When it comes to what's free for consumers now, Linux gets the win.

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                  • NeoMorpheus
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2022
                    • 605

                    #10
                    Doesnt Nintendo also uses BSD in their consoles? Or a variation of it?

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