news
BSD: GhostBSD, EricBSD, OpenBSD
-
The Register UK ☛ GhostBSD planning to ditch Xorg for XLibre
GhostBSD plans to move to the XLibre X11 server to better support its flagship MATE desktop – as well as Xfce and the new Gershwin.
Eric Turgeon, maintainer of the easy-to-install graphical GhostBSD distribution of FreeBSD, has published a blog post to explain Why GhostBSD is Moving to XLibre.
-
Eric Turgeon ☛ EricBSD – Addressing XLibre Change and GhostBSD Future
There was hope at one point that Xorg would get improvements, but that hope was crushed fast. I won't get into the story. I think everyone reading this will know what happened.
When XLibre started, it first looked controversial. Before making a decision to try it, I wanted to see what would happen with it. When it started to look promising, I began to evaluate it more seriously. When the porting to FreeBSD started, we got it ported to GhostBSD by b-aaz to our ports tree. It got into GhostBSD's ports tree before FreeBSD. We tested it and made builds available, but we weren't planning to release it for 26.01.
-
TuMFatig ☛ Multiple keyboard layouts on OpenBSD
My ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 AMD has a French (ISO AZERTY). But it is connected to a dock and I mainly use an external (USB) keyboard with an ANSI US layout.
Because I’d rather not type with an US layout on an FR keyboard, and vice-versa, I have configured my OpenBSD OS to deal with both, nearly automagically.