Ed Maste@emaste@mastodon.social: @neal @kde The FreeBSD Foundation''s laptop support project started with a focus on drivers and low-level things. We've made good progress there and are now starting to look at a roadmap for effort further up the stack.

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Ed Maste@emaste@mastodon.social (2026-01-23 00:23:26)
@neal @kde No surprise, the main problem is not a technical one :)

I'm discussing the login/session management topic with some FreeBSD folks, and there are lots of different paths to investigate (which could include adding new FreeBSD kernel or library functionality, adding FreeBSD support to existing daemons, etc.).
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Ed Maste@emaste@mastodon.social (2026-01-23 00:27:12)
@neal @kde The FreeBSD Foundation''s laptop support project started with a focus on drivers and low-level things. We've made good progress there and are now starting to look at a roadmap for effort further up the stack.


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Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:@neal@social.gompa.me (2026-01-23 01:07:24)
@emaste @kde That's fantastic! I've got many friends in the FreeBSD space (especially @kdedude who is 💯) and I want to see KDE Plasma be the premier experience for BSDs.

(Don't tell anyone, but I occasionally fool around with FreeBSD for funsies! 😜)

FreeBSD has come a long way... I can easily get something up that works, which is way better than back when I first tried it over a decade ago. Y'all are doing awesome work!

Still would like a SimpleDRM equivalent though. 😉