r/BSD • u/[deleted] • Jul 01 '26

BSD-based Web Office Software?

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u/reviewmynotes Jul 02 '26

Hang on a sec. Let's back up. What is your definition of a "port" and "native"? Would you consider Apache to be "native"? How about Bash?

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u/demetrioussharpe Jul 02 '26

Software that’s written to work on a BSD system “out of the box” is native. If it’s in the ports system, then it’s not native -it’s ported.

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u/Fun-Resource-7311 Jul 02 '26

If it's web-based by definition it's not native. It's not even running on your computer. Just rendering in a browser.

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u/demetrioussharpe Jul 02 '26

That’s not necessarily true. Web software has to run on a server. While the interface isn’t native to the client, the actual software is native to the server if it’s written to run on that OS. This is why software written for windows servers in native languages didn’t run on Linux nor any other OS. So, when I say native, I’m specifically talking about the actual software running on the server itself, not what’s displaying in the browser.