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FreeBSD Vows to Compete with Desktop Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-on-up dept.

AlanS2002 writes "FreeBSD developer Scott Long is being reported as saying that FreeBSD is quickly approaching feature parity with Linux. Apparently this is being achieved through efforts to more tightly integrate GNOME with FreeBSD, with one of the priorities being to 'GNOME's hardware abstraction layer--which handles hardware-specific code--working with FreeBSD'."

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  1. Re:Did they alreay win? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    No, desktop Linux has been out for much longer. Back when all the mac zealots where still screaming that mac had the better desktop...