LONGFORM MULTI-POST BLOG SERIES:

"My First #freebsd (or)
"My Journey to FreeBSD: Building a 'Just #Focus’ Laptop"

https://stevengharms.com/longform/my-first-freebsd/

#Laptop #Productivity #Programming #nscde #interlisp #medley

I’ve been working on a #freebsd from scratch blog post series and was going to skip right over Xorg (preferring #wayland and #sway)…and then I heard about #NSCDE - a reimplementation of #Solaris #CDE look-and-feel via #fvwm

Thanks to work by Christian Moerz, it was a snap. Literally `pkg install Xorg nscde` a change to my .xinitrc and I was up in a pastel bliss again. Run #interlisp on it is a beautiful joy.

I was so impressed AND I got to avoid abandonware security holes and bit rot— so I sent some librepay love. It’s a great project!

So far, my netbsd research goes well on my RPI4.
- I can run firefox (with a small fix to avoid tab crash)
- I can view/edit documents with Libreoffice
- I can listen music with mplayer/VLC
- I can play videos with mplayer/VLC
- mdns works fine (i use a lot in my home network)
- i can use ZFS (with the ARC memory patch i dont have any issues with 4GB)

i tried to put all of this on this busy screenshot, with a freshly compiled nscde environment.

#netbsd #nscde #raspberrypi4

Hey @ubuntu, can you consider dropping Snaps and add these three retro desktops environments as officials flavours?

Everyone would love it.

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#Linux #Ubuntu #TDE #NSCDE #GNUStep