FreeBSD support returning
Back in the day, Blender had official builds for FreeBSD. A while back, Blender used to be compiled for FreeBSD. It seems like it was dropped, likely because it was a very obscure system.
While it is still rather obscure in the desktop user space, it is still one of the main pillars of modern computer operating systems and they have a sizable user base. I'm hoping that one day Blender gets official builds for FreeBSD or at the very least, that we get official support for compiling Blender on FreeBSD in the docs. It seems like everything is set up for compiling on Linux and mac+win, but we don't have official support for compiling on BSD.
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I dont have statistics, but I dont think there would be a big userbase for this OS and it would be the 4th that needs maintainance. fixing bugs for 3 is already difficult and macOS Build documentation is very outdated already, but adding a 4th to the list again with probaply an even smaler userbase isn't worth ist in my eyes.
AFAIK FreeBSD folks are pretty technical. Maybe them helping Blender devs might be good solution here.
This. Each platform needs maintainer(s).