2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); He’s not wrong about that, but left unsaid is that FreeBSD doesn’t include a GUI. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); The desktop version of the OS therefore includes the KDE desktop. Percival packaged it as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), the image Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud needs to run an instance.“Desktop AMIs are designed to make it easier for new users to discover and start using FreeBSD,” Percival wrote.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); He’s not wrong about that, but left unsaid is that FreeBSD doesn’t include a GUI.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); The desktop version of the OS therefore includes the KDE desktop.
- ▪Percival packaged it as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), the image Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud needs to run an instance.“Desktop AMIs are designed to make it easier for new users to discover and start using FreeBSD,” Percival wrote.
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| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:04:33 +0200 |
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