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

D'Arcy Cain darcy at druid.net
Thu Feb 20 15:07:10 UTC 2020


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.

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