cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/64896415
For additional context, here’s Brian’s previous blog post about the first preview release of Xfwl4, where he describes his history with Xfce and the sponsorship.
https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/06/xfwl4s-first-preview-release
FreeBSD?
AFAIK, they are wisely not accepting AI code contributions over licensing concerns.
The issue is the lack of software support overall. It’s possible to use BSD, but quite limiting.
Haiku OS also decided against accepting AI code for the same reasoning (though that is even more limited, and doesn’t support a wide range of hardware, I believe).
Doesn’t seem to be full-featured alternative for desktops:
I guess it can be hard if possible at all to use apps like Blender, Krita, etc. Also, I’m getting quite used to Portage and Gentoo FreeBSD project is obsolete and unsupported now so it would be very risky to try to run it with FreeBSD kernel.