Desktop Environments and Versions
Date: 20250130
Various desktop environments have been ported to the BSDs. The following table lists the popular ones that are available on both OpenBSD and FreeBSD, the version that the desktop environment projects have released and the version that is available on the currently supported and latest release.
The list is accurate as of the date above. This will be updated on an adhoc basis to keep it reasonably fresh.
| Desktop | Project Release | OpenBSD | FreeBSD |
|---|---|---|---|
| KDE Plasma | 6.2.5 | 6.1.4 | 5.27.11 / 6.2.5 |
| GNOME | 47 | 46 | 42 |
| XFCE | 4.20 | 4.18 | 4.20 |
| Cinnamon | 6.4.6 | N/A | 5.4.9 |
| MATE | 1.28 | 1.26 | 1.28 |
| Budgie | 10.9.2 | N/A | 10.8 |
| LXQt | 2.1.1 | 2.0.0 | 2.1.0 |
| Lumina | 1.6.2 | 1.4.0 | 1.6.2 |
| Enlightenment | 0.27.0 | (E16) 1.0.29 | 0.26.0 |