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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:31PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:31PM (#699925)

    The BSD's generally have a stable branch which is your "disruptive" update, and a current branch which is rolling. The upgrade in place for these is generally not too disruptive, the kernel and core userland get replaced and your package repos are updated. I haven't run FreeBSD in a while and never tried TrueOS, but the OpenBSD stable-$oldversion -> stable-$newversion is really simple and takes less than 5 minutes.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @04:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @04:45AM (#700128)

    I've tried using using -Current for an OS and it really sucks. Having stuff break when you need it.. blows.
    Can't remote into work because the latest update broke x an y and now a patch for z it 'coming' .. yes, I don't doubt they will and it's great.. but it also broke Java 8 and that's needed for A and now I can't do work. Sigh.