Re: FreeBSD Foundation Laptop Support target hardware and desktop environments

I have been intending to use a potential tax refund to purchase a framework
laptop.

And, am very interested in the project, I am willing to do whatever I can
to assist the Foundation

When I have one in hand I will let you know

Ron

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 6:45 AM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsdfoundation.org> wrote:

> The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements
> project is choosing a small list of laptops and of desktop
> environments that will be used as targets for our development effort.
> This means that contracted developers will be using the laptops and
> environments on these lists during their work, and that our testing
> will be done against these.
>
> Inclusion in the target laptop list implies that at least two of these
> laptop models are in use by developers working on this project for the
> FreeBSD Foundation, and that we have vendor contacts for development
> support.
>
> We are starting the list with the 13" AMD Framework laptop:
>
> https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/supported/laptops.md
>
> We've chosen this laptop as the initial target for a few reasons. The
> Foundation has a good relationship with folks at Framework, and they
> have been contributing bug fixes and improvements to improve FreeBSD.
> See https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/freebsd-on-framework for
> details.
>
> The Foundation also has a good working relationship with AMD, in case
> we need support during development. Additional laptop models will be
> added over time, taking into account vendor support and community
> feedback.
>
> For the desktop environment we'll start with KDE, as it is popular and
> has an active development team.
>
> https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/supported/desktop-environment.md
> .
>
> We're targeting Wayland as it's important for long-term viability,
> although in the short term KDE on X11 is the usable approach.
>
> Please let me know if you have any feedback on these two topics.
>
>