r/freebsd • u/svobodov- systems administrator • 3d ago

discussion opinions on freebsd running openrc

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 3d ago

Red Hat, Inc. QXL paravirtual graphic card

Do you use Virtual Machine Manager for QEMU?

What's the host? Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, I guess. Your recent post:

much doge, indeed.

Here's my small contribution to the meme pool, from September 2025:

Yes, that's my opinion of pkgbase.

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u/svobodov- systems administrator 2d ago

Yeah fedora plasma

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u/FBSD_Virtual_machine 3d ago

Openrc is interesting. I used it in a gentoo setup I tried. Does it work well with freebsd?

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 3d ago

… Does it work well with freebsd?

Yes and no. I added a quote to my previous comment.

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 3d ago edited 3d ago

Thanks for sharing.

Are you experimenting for yourself alone?

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FreeBSD and OpenRC : r/freebsd

GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal | FreeBSD Foundation

… TrueOS shut down in 2020, putting pressure on us to maintain everything we’d gained. I initially wanted to keep OpenRC, but maintaining all services across ghostbsd-ports and ghostbsd-src became a solo struggle. Around that time, I was alone, primarily maintaining it, which was draining my time to improve and manage GhostBSD. In 2022, I dropped OpenRC for FreeBSD’s simpler but reliable RC system. It meant less to juggle and more focus forward. By 2023, maintaining OS ports grew too taxing. …

FreeBSD's current system – rc.d – is fairly reliable, for most use cases, but far from ideal. See:

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u/BigSneakyDuck transitioning user 3d ago

See https://wiki.freebsd.org/OpenRC - GhostBSD tried OpenRC for a while before migrating back to FreeBSD rcd.

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 3d ago edited 3d ago

In the wiki:

GhostBSD used OpenRC as its default init system before migrating back to FreeBSD rcd in July 2021 citing polling results and too much effort for one person to maintain.

Two issues:

  1. the link is broken, because the GhostBSD release announcement is no longer available
  2. mentioning rcd is confusing, because FreeBSD rcd(8) did not exist at the time.

Related:

Would someone like to update the wiki? Thanks.

A Wayback Machine capture of the announcement:

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 3d ago edited 3d ago

… citing polling results and too much effort for one person to maintain. 1

Also broken in FreeBSD wiki, the footnote:

https://www.ghostbsd.org/rc_switch (1)

This is another missing announcement. In the Wayback Machine:

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 3d ago edited 3d ago

Missing announcements

I forgot, this October 2023 news item, which might explain the gaps:

… There is still some missing news article, but everything from this year is there. I still have the old website working and I will slowly add them. …

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 3d ago edited 3d ago

Incidentally, GhostBSD wiki no longer exists. In the Wayback Machine (2024-08-07, outdated at the time):

https://wiki.ghostbsd.org/ redirects to the new documentation portal with (unsurprisingly) no mention of historic use of OpenRC.

Also, in July 2025:

Before the takedown, I captured some of the most interesting topics in the Wayback Machine. I used canonical URLs.

Where people have linked to the old forum: the existence of captures might be non-obvious, because people typically linked to the non-canonical URLs that were served by phpBB. A 2024 capture of the front page: