arcan
Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine" (by letoram)
cbsd
Yet one more wrapper around jail, bhyve, QEMU and XEN (by cbsd)
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| arcan | cbsd | |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | 6 | |
| 1,491 | 623 | |
| - | 2.6% | |
| 8.2 | 8.7 | |
| 10 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
arcan
Posts with mentions or reviews of arcan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Is there a cross-platform graphics library that can run without X or wayland that runs on the BSD's bare-metal?
Something like this ? https://arcan-fe.com/
- X.org Alternatives? MicroXWin, Wayland, Y, DFB, Xynth, Fresco, etc. (2009)
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kirby.nvim: design update
This requires to remove the terminal emulator plus adjust IPC, like what arcan is doing: https://github.com/letoram/arcan
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VT330/VT340 Sixel Graphics
kragen, what's the current status of BubbleOS?
Also, I'm curious what you think of Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com)
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Qt Wayland: support for surviving a compositor crash was merged
afair ChromeOS do implement it, harder to find the commit but also know Arcan mentioned elsewhere in this thread added it quite a while ago https://github.com/letoram/arcan/commit/d547c55565a848946422e24eee324c8ed091ff15
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not the biggest Xorg fan, but it isn't all sunshine and rainbows in the promised Wayland.
I managed to find this one in my history: Arcan it does has a cool name ngl, I never tried it though
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Wayland blows ass and mostly functions as a launcher for x.org processes. Nobody needs, wants or asked for Wayland. It's nobody's fault but the assholes at FreeDesktop
Lol not arcan
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A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell
See https://arcan-fe.com/, in particular Lash: https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lash...
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Is Wayland really the best solution
LOL. Not. Meanwhile, one dude managed to write an entire display server that handles, both, Wayland and X11 apps: https://arcan-fe.com/
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SDL Tries Again To Prefer Wayland Over X11
Arcan is a decent contender for an actual way forward (and like PipeWire replacing PulseAudio, Arcan natively supports X11 and Wayland clients)
cbsd
Posts with mentions or reviews of cbsd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-15.
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3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System
To add on, CBSD may also provide of these functions. So there are options.
[1] https://github.com/cbsd/cbsd
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XigmaNAS + new bhyve extension
It definitely has several restrictions, but I now create virtual machines very easily. The module uses the efforts of the CBSD project (supporting the library of (well tested by community) cloud images).
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A future without containers? ( thoughts )
Impressed by the AWS FireCracker project, as part of the CBSD project, the new subproject 'CBSD Firestarter' begins, which will be focused on optimizing Linux/BSD images for use in Bhyve hypervisor.
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jail + linuxlator + cbsd : warning: no such /etc/rc.conf: , skip for config ifconfig_eth0
( and here: https://github.com/cbsd/cbsd/issues/663 ) I added link to https://github.com/cbsd/cbsd/issues/589#issuecomment-829615212 - this is how I configured the network in my demo. Its not linux utilities.
- Which BSD/hypervisor?
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Ubuntu Kernel Update and ZFS Not Working
jails and bhyve virtualization is the way in FreeBSD. k8s is done simpler with cbsd: https://github.com/cbsd/cbsd
What are some alternatives?
When comparing arcan and cbsd you can also consider the following projects:
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
vm-bhyve - Shell based, minimal dependency bhyve manager
waybox - An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP)
rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool
openbsd-wip - OpenBSD work in progress ports
NomadBSD - Livesystem based on FreeBSD
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
virtualbox-org-svn-vbox-trunk - *UNOFFICIAL* mirror of the repository at http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk (the first 30569 commits are courtesy of https://gitorious.org/virtualbox/mainlinemirror); Please **DO NOT** open pull requests against this repo
glaucus - A simple and lightweight Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox
htop - htop - an interactive process viewer
osv - OSv, a new operating system for the cloud.