Project Trident Ditches BSD For Linux

Peter Reutemann <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:15:19 +1300
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'Project Trident is moving from FreeBSD to Void Linux, reports Its FOSS:

According to a later post, the move was motivated by long-standing
issues with FreeBSD. These issues include "hardware compatibility,
communications standards, or package availability continue to limit
Project Trident users". According to a conversation on Telegram,
FreeBSD has just updated its build of the Telegram client and it was
nine releases behind everyone else.

The lead dev of Project Trident, Ken Moore, is also the main developer
of the Lumina Desktop. The Lumina Desktop has been on hold for a while
because the Project Trident team had to do so much work just to keep
their packages updated. (Once they complete the transition to Void
Linux, Ken will start working on Lumina again.)

After much searching and testing, the Project Trident team decided to
use Void Linux as their new base.

More from the Project Trident site:

It's important to reiterate that Project Trident is a distribution of
an existing operating system. Project Trident has never been a
stand-alone operating system. The goal of Project Trident is enhancing
the usability of an operating system as a graphical workstation
through all sorts of means: custom installers, automatic setup
routines, graphical utilities, and more...

The more we've tested Void Linux, the more impressed we have been. We
look forward to working with an operating system that helps Project
Trident continue to provide a stable, high-quality graphical desktop
experience.'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/10/20/2227228

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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