Lumina Desktop 0.8.6 Released
reddit / BSD

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Bceverly · 2015-08-04 14:03

Does Lumina have a hard dependency on ZFS?  Just wondering if it would
be a nonstarter to have a go at an OpenBSD port...

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daemonpenguin · 2015-08-04 14:10

Lumina does not have any dependency on ZFS, hard or soft. If ZFS is
available then the Lumina file manager will use it, if not then those
features simply do not present themselves.

By the way, Lumina is already available as a port in OpenBSD
http://lumina-desktop.org/get-lumina/#openbsd

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Bceverly · 2015-08-04 15:04

Outstanding. I'll give it a whirl!

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BumpitySnook · 2015-08-04 15:09

Why would one use Lumina instead of, for example, XFCE?

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rhavenn · 2015-08-04 16:13

It's built to work with the BSDs up-front and doesn't rely on any
Linux'isms like /proc, systemd or DBUS for its lower level functions.

It's also BSD licensed which matters to some.

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BumpitySnook · 2015-08-04 18:09

Thanks.

(Though, clearly XFCE works ok without systemd, I run it on FreeBSD
today. :))