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by doublerabbit 100 days ago
> Most FreeBSD installs still make use of stuff like Wayland and a lot of Linux parts.

No? Wayland is available but Xorg is the default.

FreeBSD doesn't install a display server on default so the choice is yours.

There is no GUI installation of FreeBSD so I am not sure what "linux parts" you are referring to. The installation uses curses which is ancient and has existed since the dawn of C, Unix. Abd what FreeBSD is. Is that what your referring to?

pkg is FreeBSD's package manager.

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Lol Red Hat had been X.org's largest contributor for years...
Sure, but that doesn't make it "Linux stuff".

Xorg is a fork of XFree86 which was originally The XFree86 Project, Inc. for Unix Systems, which targeted 4.4BSD.

Key part of the comment I initially replied to:

> FreeBSD lives outside of Redhat's influence.

And I am replying to your key part of the parent comment of: "Ish. Most FreeBSD installs still make use of stuff like Wayland and a lot of Linux parts."

One could say the parts you seem to count for being from Linux are Unix parts as they've originated from Unix, not Linux.