Its just one company (iXsystems) that makes you think that.
Think about NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD and for how long they do not have any ‘distribution’ perturbations …
The iXsystems have very solid FreeNAS and TrueNAS distributions but they ‘struggle’ with PC-BSD/TrueOS Desktop and Servers editions, its quite good explained in the article actually :)
I understand why the changes happened. I just question if its really needed. Doesnt it clash with the usual bsd consistency you get by having the kernel and userland developed in unison?
You mean by incorporating LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL and OpenRC instead of rc by TrueOS?
Alternatives are good, I did not liked PC-BSD and I find Lumina ugly but that does not mean that ‘idea’ of Lumina is bad. Its the only BSD oriented DE currently.
XFCE or MATE work well on OpenBSD or FreeBSD but little ‘closed’ intergration may help (or may develop standard way of such interaction between DE and FreeBSD that laters XFCE or MATE would adopt it).
IMHO GhostBSD does better job as being ‘desktop’ FreeBSD but its still not perfect eigther …
I cant keep up with PC-BSD branding and structures changes anymore, BSD distributions is a weird concept.
Its just one company (iXsystems) that makes you think that.
Think about NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD and for how long they do not have any ‘distribution’ perturbations …
The iXsystems have very solid FreeNAS and TrueNAS distributions but they ‘struggle’ with PC-BSD/TrueOS Desktop and Servers editions, its quite good explained in the article actually :)
I understand why the changes happened. I just question if its really needed. Doesnt it clash with the usual bsd consistency you get by having the kernel and userland developed in unison?
You mean by incorporating LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL and OpenRC instead of rc by TrueOS?
Alternatives are good, I did not liked PC-BSD and I find Lumina ugly but that does not mean that ‘idea’ of Lumina is bad. Its the only BSD oriented DE currently.
XFCE or MATE work well on OpenBSD or FreeBSD but little ‘closed’ intergration may help (or may develop standard way of such interaction between DE and FreeBSD that laters XFCE or MATE would adopt it).
IMHO GhostBSD does better job as being ‘desktop’ FreeBSD but its still not perfect eigther …
Hmm I guess some experimentation could do good.
As the experimentation happens outside of the main FreeBSD project it does not hurt, yes.