My armchair hypothesis about the state of #HelloSystem is the fact that not even most Mac users interested in #FreeBSD want a clone of that system, and they might have found more developers if they chased the Windows users market.

#Encuesta: De los #EntornosDeEscritorios más livianos para #GNULinux y la familia #BSD, ¿con cuál de estos cuatro te quedás?

#LXDE #LXQt #GNOME #MATE #Cinnamon #KDE #TDE #Trinity

#Escritorios #GNU #GNU_Linux #Linux #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #NomadBSD #MidnightBSD #GhostBSD #helloSystem #Distro #Distros #DistroGNU #DistrosGNU #DistribuciónGNU #DistribucionesGNU #DistribuciónLinux #DistribucionesLinux

#FreeBSD got some well deserved mainstream coverage yesterday when the YouTube channel ExplainingComputers released a video about FreeBSD on the desktop - or to be more accurate: about FreeBSD desktop derivatives: #GhostBSD #NomadBSD #MidnightBSD #HelloSystem

https://youtu.be/9Xm52v1D8qo?si=HsisQ_7Z_ojL9Pqx

I need opinions for running helloSystem via bhyve. It's kinda cool to run Aqua UI with FreeBSD as the core.

#hellosystem #bhyve

@eugenialoli thanks …

I'm not aware of explicit abandonment of helloSystem, although <https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases> the latest release was probably based on FreeBSD 13.1, which reached end of life in July 2023 <https://www.freebsd.org/security/unsupported/>.

Most memorable (a turn-off for me, and others): the imbalanced rampage about Wayland.

Cc @duncan_bayne

#FreeBSD #helloSystem

@topher My bext bets would be #helloSystem or #macOS on a #Hackintosh...

@topher i'd say figure out MMIO but I think #helloSystem is worth a shot, tho you may like or dislike this #FreeBSD-based distro for looking like #macOS.

linux del día:
helloSystem es un sistema operativo orientado al escritorio basado en FreeBSD. El proyecto busca proporcionar una interfaz y un diseño de escritorio al estilo de macOS mientras se utiliza software de código abierto. La versión 0.8.1. salió en marzo de 2023, y aún sigue activo el proyecto
#retrocomputingmx #linuxdeldia #hellosystem

I just gave #helloSystem a try on my laptop.
Both the experimental-14.0 and the 0.8.1 releases, using #Ventoy.
It looks awesome - highly polished, great auto-configuration/detection of hardware. It could really make BSD newbie-friendly.

Then again, I won't use it as a desktop in the foreseeable future:

"helloSystem has no dark mode and dark mode support is currently not on our roadmap. It is not essential to what we are trying to create (a productivity-oriented desktop). In fact, black text on white background was one key achievement of the early Xerox and Apple GUIs over the usual text-mode screens of the time (green or amber on black background). Let's not fall back to the "dark times".
...
Likewise, helloSystem has no theming support and theming support is currently not on our roadmap. It is not essential to what we are trying to create (a productivity-oriented desktop)."

Well, my productivity-oriented desktop disagrees. With a hard no.

https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues/145

Black screen on my new #helloSystem hmmmm......

@solobsd I know about #macOS !!! I actually may give #Hellosystem a try again.

@gyptazy this was touching to read. I’ve never used #helloSystem, but I hope @probono is alright too.

I am on #hellosystem on my #Thinkpad T410

@stefano Have you tried using #helloSystem ?

Going to try and install #helloSystem onto my #T410 #ThinkPad

#ThinkPad #T410 #helloSystem #FreeBSD