[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[David Demelier]

Le 18/02/2020 à 04:23, Tomasz CEDRO a écrit :
> To be honest X11 Video Acceleration DRM mess and dramatic
> Virtualization with VirtualBox brings back my MacBook to the desk
> because FreeBSD does not seem to be reliable desktop environment
> anymore even on a decent modern machine :-(
> 
> Is it really necessary? What happened to FreeBSD? :-(

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.

Unfortunately this won't change anytime soon because there are much more 
people involved in Linux on the desktop (and has large manpower because 
of android as well) rather than FreeBSD.

To me FreeBSD stays a server OS (even though rolling-releases ports are 
not appropriate).

-- 
David