FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop
The Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, Deb Goodkin, has been testing FreeBSD as her daily operating system on a laptop. She shared her experiences at the Open Source Summit, highlighting both successes and challenges in using FreeBSD on modern hardware. Goodkin's journey included overcoming issues with applications like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, ultimately achieving a functional setup with the Framework Laptop.
- ▪Deb Goodkin has been trying to use FreeBSD as her daily operating system on a laptop.
- ▪She presented her experiences at the Open Source Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation.
- ▪Goodkin faced challenges with applications like Zoom and Microsoft Teams but managed to make FreeBSD work on her Framework Laptop.
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FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 24 May 2026 at 10:02 AM EDT. 1 Comment With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops. Similar to the Linux Foundation Executive Director at least in the past being seen at conferences running Apple macOS, it turns out FreeBSD Executive Director Deb Goodkin until recently hasn't been running FreeBSD as the daily OS on her laptop/desktop hardware.
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