helloSystem picking up from neXtBSD/bsd-next or Airyx & Similar other variants of X-Like Kernels?

[Daasin]

Have seen all sorts of goals with L4Darwin/Darbat, Newer takes on Mach, and even nano/pico-vkernel rumps that run their own stuff. Could be interesting to have more of a link to OSX-Like stuff while still having previous work to build on as opposed to doing an entirely New DarwinOS to be more inline with Mac

[probonopd]

Since our developer resources are very limited and since FreeBSD has matured over decades, we want to deviate it from it as little as possible, especially in areas that impact the security and stability of the system (such as the kernel). So there would have to be excellent arguments for a switch to make use consider it. While we are loosely applying some of the ideas behind the original Mac Human Interface Guidelines, we are not necessarily interested in mirroring Apple's technical approaches but instead are trying to implement the concepts with more commonly used contemporary open source software. For example, we are using FreeBSD rather than Darwin, Qt rather than Cocoa, Python rather than Objective C, in part because we hope that these chioces will attract more developers.

This being said, we are very closely following the development in the AiryxOS project and will consider to utilize them should they ever be upstreamed into FreeBSD.

[Daasin]

And on another note, how hard would it be for a user to switch to DragonFly-BSD while keeping the helloSystem parts on top? 🤔

[probonopd]

Honestly I don't know. I have never ran DragonFlyBSD. In any case, it would be "helloDesktop on DragonFlyBSD". whereas "helloSystem" describes the whole end-to-end experience, a fully pre-configured system that can be used from an installable Live ISO.

Are there specific reasons why you'd be interested in helloDesktop on DragonFlyBSD?

[Daasin]

Was interested in running DF-BSD for a while tbh, especially in the vkernel aspect of it. Never got motivated to actually make any shift in general from mainstream OS's till I came across helloSystem.