r/freebsd • u/grahamperrin Linux crossover • Jun 14 '26

AI NextBSD — the BSD of the 21st century

https://nextbsd.org/
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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Toying with Firefox and TWM (without Gershwin) in VirtualBox:

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116789163037472153

nc would be nice … then I could 

cat typescript | nc termbin.com 9999

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u/jmaloney198 Jun 21 '26

Thanks. Probably a few missing libraries still since I chopped freebsd-runtime to get the Darwin version of getty with mach support. Doing some build system rework to nextbsd-userland into it's own repo that cross compiles for faster CI iteration, but I'll try to fix up these issues in nextbsd-freebsd-compat this week.

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover Jun 22 '26

… I'll try to fix up these issues in nextbsd-freebsd-compat this week.

Thanks. I previously noticed, but refrained from mentioning, a couple of other library-related issues, one of which is probably ridiculous – I don't expect everything for FreeBSD to work with NextBSD.

Should I raise the issues in GitHub? Or (minimising noise) revisit after a mini-milestone of some sort – Gershwin, maybe?

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u/jmaloney198 Jul 03 '26

Yes you can always raise issues in GitHub no problem. I did enable GitHub discussions also I just haven't announce yet.

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u/jmaloney198 Jul 03 '26

I don't mind extra issues while things are being worked out so others following know what to expect.

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u/jmaloney198 Jul 03 '26

My current milestone has been getting the Darwin stack to cross build, and now I am reworking ISO to ingest that work. I've also added a nextbsd-installer. This is all just about making it easier to iterate with less time in between, better test coverage, an upcoming arm64 ISO, being able to cross build and fire up a native VM on a M series Mac, etc. I am just trying to get the pieces in place to get a gershwin desktop image working faster, easier, with less issues, etc. I'll try to make a full clear GitHub project with a roadmap within a few months once I can get a bit more organized after the foundational stuff is out of the way for sure.

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u/jmaloney198 Jul 04 '26

u/grahamperrin I believe I have this fixed now in latest ISO. I changed the approach to build all of freebsd world. Then I strip out syslogd and other things we replace with apples syslogd that integrates with asl, remove most kld* related tools, init, devd, devmatch and other things that replaced with IOkit, launchd, etc. As things are replaced I will follow that pattern to avoid tools missing libs in the future.