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dismalaftoday at 3:30 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Anything outside of the stuff required to make a graphical desktop work?

That's kinda big, no?


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justin66today at 4:32 PM

I think FreeBSD's slogan has been "The Power to Serve" roughly as long as we've been making jokes about The Year of Linux on the Desktop, so we're talking decades. I assume everyone has had plenty of time to make their peace with FreeBSD's mission being focused on the server.

The original question was of interest because, outside of the desktop, Linux does have some other stuff they've cooked up. It really would be interesting if some of that other stuff had jumped the fence. I think FreeBSD is as likely to adopt smf or launchd or something as they are to adopt systemd (not very likely in any case), hence my curiosity about whether something had happened.

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doublerabbittoday at 4:09 PM

What Linux parts are you referring to then?