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Graham Perrin

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on FreeBSD 15.1 lands, but desktop dabblers still have to draw their own GUI – Liam Proven, The Register · c/freebsd · 1 pts · 60d

@lproven also:

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/28

― the linked 'KDE with Wayland' document puts KDE in context (with Xfce and others).

It's very likely that issue 28, or the linked document, has been in conversation before … I don't expect things such as these to be imprinted upon people's memories 🙂

Cc @dexter @alfonsosiciliano @grahamperrin@billboard.bsd.cafe

on FreeBSD 15.1 lands, but desktop dabblers still have to draw their own GUI – Liam Proven, The Register · c/freebsd · 1 pts · 61d

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@alfonsosiciliano/116817819896561087

@lproven thanks again.

I don't intend to test the desktop-installer package with 15.1 on real hardware. A guess: the semi-technical blurb below might partly explain the problem that you encountered.

Numerous fixes and enhancements reached the ports collection (distinct from base) on 1st June – a combination of <https://github.com/outpaddling/auto-admin/releases/tag/0.8.5> plus <https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/releases/tag/1.2.0>.

Timing: the changes reached latest, but not quarterly. <https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/auto-admin/#packages>, <https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/desktop-installer/#packages>. They'll hit quarterly in the fourth quarter of 2026.

Defocusing from auto-admin and desktop-installer (in ports) and the future desktop with FreeBSD Installer (in base), here's another strand:

FreeBSD "Multi" Installer at BSDCan 2026 – Alfonso Siciliano

Cc @grahamperrin@billboard.bsd.cafe