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Are we XLibre yet?

X11 has been, and still is, a vital piece of technology at the core of professional Unix-like workstations since decades. It has a proven track record of supporting enterprise-grade applications with long-term protocol stability and platform compatibility. It has matured over decades. XLibre is an actively developed fork of the X.Org X11 server, initiated by the most active X.Org developer and supported by the open source community.

An incompatible alternative, Wayland, is being aggressively pushed by IBM = Red Hat = Gnome = Fedora = freedesktop.org. However, it is not ready to succeed X11 as it its governance model leads to never-ending discussions and prevents even the most essential functionality from existing. Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

It is time that the open source community reclaims what was ours to begin with. This page lists distrib

Instructions for installing rEFInd to dual boot a computer with FreeBSD and windows (and possibly other OSes as well).
Note! I use $esp-dev for all commands. Substitude this for the device with your ESP (for example ada0p1)
Download rEFInd from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.11.4/refind-bin-0.11.4.zip/download
This gives you a zip-file with everything you need for rEFInd.
Find out which partition is the ESP. This is easiest done by running `gpart list` and look for partitions with `type: efi`.
In a multi-disk setup there might be more than one of those.
I have always installed rEFInd to the one with the Windows bootloader.