GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold

GhostBSD plans to move to the XLibre X11 server to better support its flagship MATE desktop – as well as Xfce and the new Gershwin.

Eric Turgeon, maintainer of the easy-to-install graphical GhostBSD distribution of FreeBSD, has published a blog post to explain Why GhostBSD is Moving to XLibre.

Although "distribution" is a Linux term and it's not entirely appropriate over the fence in BSD land, it's both familiar, and close enough to accurate, that we think it's helpful. GhostBSD is based on FreeBSD and mostly uses components drawn from its upstream parent, but it adds a few of its own. For Linux users curious about the biggest of the BSDs, GhostBSD is by far the easiest way to try it out. Over the last few years, we've looked at it twice: version 23.10.1 back in October 2023, and more recently, version 25.02, which ...