Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:07:00 -0600 From: D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life Message-ID: <c8e65f65-2278-e805-1eff-aeffce243617@druid.net> In-Reply-To: <ead08f6c-3dc4-210d-b321-549eb0ad721f@malikania.fr> References: <20200217231452.717FA1E820@freefall.freebsd.org> <CAFYkXjmZi1-MB6W0HsMx9gHek7Xg5heoSKKWkNTnw74dxRTwAw@mail.gmail.com> <ead08f6c-3dc4-210d-b321-549eb0ad721f@malikania.fr>
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On 2020-02-20 06:17, David Demelier wrote: > FreeBSD for desktop is still not a thing. It won't change anytime soon > because lacks of manpower and less interest into porting things to > FreeBSD. That's why DRM, bluetooth, wireless, ACPI and wayland terribly > lag behind Linux. It may not have all the bells and whistles that Linux has but it works just fine as a basic office desktop. I set them up with Firefox, Thunderbird, Libreoffice and a few other basic things and it works just fine. It also allows for one system across all of my servers and desktops for easy management. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 788 2246 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. IM: darcy@VybeNetworks.com, VoIP: sip:darcy@druid.net
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