Gnome3 porting to FreeBSD!

Gnome3 isn’t working on FreeBSD or in any BSD as Gnome3 uses technologies that are not available to BSDs. I thought Gnome3 to BSD was a dead project till Juanjo Marin (Gnome Dev in Evince and A11y) mentioned a few things about BSD in Gnome’s Marketing ML.

It seems that there is a FreeBSD Gnome Project working to port Gnome3 there!

FreeBSD

The FreeBSD Gnome Team is consist from:

• Alexander Nedotsukov
• Alexander Logvinov
• Jeremy Messenger
• Joe Marcus Clarke
• Koop Mast
• Michael Johnson

Involve with FreeBSD Gnome Project

Any questions regarding GNOME on FreeBSD should be addressed to the freebsd-gnome mailing list. All FreeBSD GNOME users, as well as those who wish to help improve and maintain GNOME on FreeBSD, should feel free to join the mailing list. You do not have to subscribe if you just want to report a problem or ask for help – just send your message to freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org.

All relevant discussion should be carried out in the mailing list, unless there is a good reason for contacting one of the developers directly.

FreeBSD is releasing version 9.1 in August 17, (in two days!) and a Gnome (3.4) release, stable or testing, will be after that.

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 5.1 offers a Gnome 3.2.1 desktop but in fallback mode.

BSD Magazine

Maybe BSD hasn’t as many webpages as Linux has, to inform people about news, but it has a really amazing magazine, actually one of  the best magazines for an Open Software project. You can download it for free in a PDF format, but it requires a quick registration.

It is monthly, I couldn’t find on their web-page a hard copy of it, and it comes with English / Russian Editions.

Antoine Jacoutot a regular contributor to the BSD Magazine made a nice offer to Gnome via the Gnome Foundation MLs.

“As a regular contributor to the BSD Magazine I was proposed to put a half-page of advertisement free of charge in one of my articles (the ad does not need to be commercial). I was wondering if there was any interested from the Foundation to use this half-page to have some exposure”.

BSDs obviously haven’t the popularity of Linux but they maintain strong communities and run huge services. In any case will be cool if Gnome3 will make it there.