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COSMIC: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)

submitted 10 months ago by mmstick to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice! I know that OpenBSD people have been working on a wayland compatible thing which takes into account Linux-specific things (libinput?), but last I heard it's not ready. I have my hopes up though! Could be the year of desktop BSD if they port COSMIC.

[–] mmstick 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It would certainly be easier for them to port COSMIC because there are very few dependencies on shared C libraries. Cargo links all Rust libraries statically, so it's easier to maintain and update components. This will depend how open they are to accepting Cargo and Rust into their ecosystems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

OpenBSD -release seems to be at rust 1.72, but -current has 1.75.
https://openbsd.app/?search=rust¤t=on