FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases
Daemonarchy in unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions
Jordan Hubbard, a founder of the FreeBSD project, has created a new BSD-based desktop environment called Daemonarchy. It is an independent effort and not affiliated with the original Omarchy, which is based on Linux. Daemonarchy ports the Omarchy Wayland-based desktop to FreeBSD. The current release is version 1.3.1, and Hubbard managed to release 10 different versions within approximately 10 days.
Hubbard, one of the original creators of FreeBSD, has been working on NextBSD, a project to modernize FreeBSD with Apple Darwin components, which also utilizes LLM coding assistants. The inspiration for Daemonarchy came from a LinkedIn post criticizing the difficulty of setting up FreeBSD with an Nvidia card.
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