FreeBSD Foundation Director Deb Goodkin Begins Daily Use of FreeBSD on Laptops After Years of Improvements
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Summary
FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Deb Goodkin recently admitted she hadn't been using FreeBSD as her daily operating system on laptops, but is now trying to do so following significant improvements to FreeBSD's laptop support over the past two years. The efforts include big changes and ongoing work to create a smooth KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD. Goodkin presented on this topic at the Open Source Summit.
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· 3 pulledFreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops.
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.
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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