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TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore

posted by janrinok on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the declining-desktops dept.

canopic jug writes:

TrueOS, once a FreeBSD distro, will change the focus of their project and become a full, separate fork. TrueOS was known especially for providing a nice FreeBSD desktop based on -CURRENT with the Lumina desktop environment and the ZFS file system by default. Now it is a full fork.

Essentially, TrueOs will become a downstream fork of FreeBSD. They will integrate newer software into the system, such as OpenRC and LibreSSL. They hope to stick to a 6-month release cycle.

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It's FOSS : TrueOS Doesn't Want to Be 'BSD for Desktop' Anymore
FreeBSD News : TrueOS to become a fork of FreeBSD
TrueOS Blog : TrueOS to Focus on Core Operating System

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  • (Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Thursday June 28 2018, @05:03PM (1 child)

    by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Thursday June 28 2018, @05:03PM (#699897)

    systemd is hard to port to other kernels besides Linux because they use some Linux-kernel-specific APIs. That's one of the reasons the project was created, to make use of some Linux kernel features that more platform-independent init systems avoided.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @02:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @02:57AM (#700092)

    Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) Linus (torvalds [at] kruuna.helsinki.fi) PS. Yes – it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. —Linus Torvalds