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> I often wonder what the current status is of the BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD). DragonFly BSD ([1], [2]): "Am I a joke to you? :-(" ;-) By the way: If yo

> I often wonder what the current status is of the BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD). DragonFly BSD ([1], [2]): "Am I a joke to you? :-(" ;-) By the way: If you look for a BSD-based desktop OS, have a look at GhostBSD ([3], [4]) (based on FreeBSD) and/or MidnightBSD ([5], [6]) (forked from FreeBSD). Both are under active development. --- [1] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/ https://www.dragonflybsd.org/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonFly_BSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonFly_BSD [3] https://www.ghostbsd.org/ https://www.ghostbsd.org/ [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostBSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostBSD [5] https://www.midnightbsd.org/ https://www.midnightbsd.org/ [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MidnightBSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MidnightBSD

JdeBP 3mo ago
MirOS BSD is still around, too.
- aleph_minus_one 3mo ago
  > MirOS BSD is still around, too. According to [1], - the most recent release was from March 16, 2008; 18 years ago - the most recent preview was from January 17, 2016; 10 years ago So, despite the fact that the MirOS website [2] has some small News updates from 2026, I would see the evidence on the side that MirBSD is dead, but I would love to be proven wrong on this point. --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MirOS_BSD&oldid=1298050663 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MirOS_BSD&oldid=1... [2] https://www.mirbsd.org/ https://www.mirbsd.org/
  - JdeBP 2mo ago
    The old fallacies of WWW site changes equals software changes, and unchanged code equals non-existence, and Wikipedia being gospel for computing topics, rear their ugly heads again. I follow the FediVerse robot that announces MirBSD CVS updates, which is quite active. The last major change, apart from some doco, was a fix to rdate at the end of May 2026, just 2 months ago. And even if MirOS BSD were unchanged for longer than that, it would very much still be around.

JdeBP 3mo ago

MirOS BSD is still around, too.

aleph_minus_one 3mo ago
> MirOS BSD is still around, too. According to [1], - the most recent release was from March 16, 2008; 18 years ago - the most recent preview was from January 17, 2016; 10 years ago So, despite the fact that the MirOS website [2] has some small News updates from 2026, I would see the evidence on the side that MirBSD is dead, but I would love to be proven wrong on this point. --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MirOS_BSD&oldid=1298050663 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MirOS_BSD&oldid=1... [2] https://www.mirbsd.org/ https://www.mirbsd.org/
- JdeBP 2mo ago
  The old fallacies of WWW site changes equals software changes, and unchanged code equals non-existence, and Wikipedia being gospel for computing topics, rear their ugly heads again. I follow the FediVerse robot that announces MirBSD CVS updates, which is quite active. The last major change, apart from some doco, was a fix to rdate at the end of May 2026, just 2 months ago. And even if MirOS BSD were unchanged for longer than that, it would very much still be around.