[jmclnx]

never heard of it, but interesting setup. FreeBSD user land with Linux and Gnome/Wayland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux

[codetrotter]

Another interesting, currently ongoing, mixture of Linux world and FreeBSD is NixBSD. A NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel.

https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd

I came across it earlier today.

[bpye]

It’s not mentioned in the readme, but from a quick peruse it looks like that project also has some support for OpenBSD which is very neat.

[speakspokespok]

One of the side benefits of using the FreeBSD userland is all the flags will be consistent regardless of the of program. ‘-l’ or ‘-a’ are going to do what you expect irrespective of the command. It’s nice, and I used free for along while. I still know BSD syntax better than the SystemV equivalent.

[LeFantome]

I have also used the GNU tools but the BSD ones are winning me over. Another benefit is consistency with macOS I suppose. It also uses the BSD userland.

[d3Xt3r]

Why single out GNOME? There are also KDE images, and of course, plenty of other DEs and WMs in the repos which you can always install.

[LeFantome]

The project founder uses GNOME and it says that GNOME is the desktop in various places including the project website and Wikipedia.

Other options are available though and there is even a KDE live bootable image. I use Chimera Linux with KDE.

[codetrotter]

For a while there was also a distro project working on the opposite direction. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

An official Debian GNU distribution using the kernel of FreeBSD instead of the Linux kernel.

https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD

Development of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD officially terminated July 2023 due to lack of interest and volunteers.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00176.html

[rbanffy]

There used to be a Debian with a GNU userland on top of a FreeBSD kernel. Debian GNU/KFreeBSD, I think.