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never heard of it, but interesting setup. FreeBSD user land with Linux and Gnome/Wayland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org

by jmclnx 2y ago

never heard of it, but interesting setup. FreeBSD user land with Linux and Gnome/Wayland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux

codetrotter 2y ago
For a while there was also a distro project working on the opposite direction. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. An official Debian GNU distribution using the kernel of FreeBSD instead of the Linux kernel. https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD Development of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD officially terminated July 2023 due to lack of interest and volunteers. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00176.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00176.html
codetrotter 2y ago
Another interesting, currently ongoing, mixture of Linux world and FreeBSD is NixBSD. A NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel. https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd I came across it earlier today.
- bpye 2y ago
  It’s not mentioned in the readme, but from a quick peruse it looks like that project also has some support for OpenBSD which is very neat.
speakspokespok 2y ago
One of the side benefits of using the FreeBSD userland is all the flags will be consistent regardless of the of program. ‘-l’ or ‘-a’ are going to do what you expect irrespective of the command. It’s nice, and I used free for along while. I still know BSD syntax better than the SystemV equivalent.
- LeFantome 2y ago
  I have also used the GNU tools but the BSD ones are winning me over. Another benefit is consistency with macOS I suppose. It also uses the BSD userland.
d3Xt3r 2y ago
Why single out GNOME? There are also KDE images, and of course, plenty of other DEs and WMs in the repos which you can always install.
- LeFantome 2y ago
  The project founder uses GNOME and it says that GNOME is the desktop in various places including the project website and Wikipedia. Other options are available though and there is even a KDE live bootable image. I use Chimera Linux with KDE.
rbanffy 2y ago
There used to be a Debian with a GNU userland on top of a FreeBSD kernel. Debian GNU/KFreeBSD, I think.

by jmclnx 2y ago

never heard of it, but interesting setup. FreeBSD user land with Linux and Gnome/Wayland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux

codetrotter 2y ago

For a while there was also a distro project working on the opposite direction. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. An official Debian GNU distribution using the kernel of FreeBSD instead of the Linux kernel. https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD Development of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD officially terminated July 2023 due to lack of interest and volunteers. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00176.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00176.html

codetrotter 2y ago

Another interesting, currently ongoing, mixture of Linux world and FreeBSD is NixBSD. A NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel. https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd I came across it earlier today.

bpye 2y ago
It’s not mentioned in the readme, but from a quick peruse it looks like that project also has some support for OpenBSD which is very neat.

speakspokespok 2y ago

One of the side benefits of using the FreeBSD userland is all the flags will be consistent regardless of the of program. ‘-l’ or ‘-a’ are going to do what you expect irrespective of the command. It’s nice, and I used free for along while. I still know BSD syntax better than the SystemV equivalent.

LeFantome 2y ago
I have also used the GNU tools but the BSD ones are winning me over. Another benefit is consistency with macOS I suppose. It also uses the BSD userland.

d3Xt3r 2y ago

Why single out GNOME? There are also KDE images, and of course, plenty of other DEs and WMs in the repos which you can always install.

LeFantome 2y ago
The project founder uses GNOME and it says that GNOME is the desktop in various places including the project website and Wikipedia. Other options are available though and there is even a KDE live bootable image. I use Chimera Linux with KDE.

rbanffy 2y ago

There used to be a Debian with a GNU userland on top of a FreeBSD kernel. Debian GNU/KFreeBSD, I think.