# Add Official FreeBSD Support **URL:** \ **Category:** Pitches\ **Tags:** freebsd\ **Created:** [December 18, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/add-official-freebsd-support/31804 "2019-12-18T05:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ensoxyz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/ensoxyz/32/9916_2.png) [@ensoxyz](https://forums.swift.org/u/ensoxyz)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/add-official-freebsd-support/31804/1 "2019-12-18T05:44:31Z")
I've been patiently waiting since 2014 for Apple to officially support swift on FreeBSD... My initial impressions with Ubuntu weren't great, to say the least. I find the operating system verbose, cluttered and needlessly convoluted as a FreeBSD user which is frustrating considering how much I love the Vapor, framework which only supports Ubuntu at the moment. This isn't a slight to Ubuntu, I know plenty of Linux users who loathe the idea of using FreeBSD lol it's all in good fun. ---
**Author:** ![tkremenek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/tkremenek/32/9115_2.png) [@tkremenek](https://forums.swift.org/u/tkremenek)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/add-official-freebsd-support/31804/2 "2019-12-18T06:07:34Z")
> [@ensoxyz](#): > > I've been patiently waiting since 2014 for Apple to officially support swift on FreeBSD... No offense but Ubuntu is trash and since the advent of popular server-side frameworks, I'm forced into working through it tangled web of garbage. I like the clean and concise nature of BSD systems being forced to adopt Ubuntu feels like torture. How do we make this a reality in 2020? As an open source project, Swift coming to a broader diversity of platforms ultimately depends on people with the specific talent, expertise, and time to support those platforms. A FreeBSD port is in need of a champion to organize the work and likely do the main heavy lifting, much as how the Windows port (which has come a long way) has been championed by @compnerd. If a port were made to happen, as an open source community we could figure out how the port would be maintained going forward. Even in that scenario a port would benefit from having a steward who could help out in keeping the port working when new issues or requirements periodically came up. ---
**Author:** ![John\_McCall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/john_mccall/32/1351_2.png) [@John\_McCall](https://forums.swift.org/u/John_McCall)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/add-official-freebsd-support/31804/3 "2019-12-18T07:30:17Z")
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**Author:** ![John\_McCall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/john_mccall/32/1351_2.png) [@John\_McCall](https://forums.swift.org/u/John_McCall)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/add-official-freebsd-support/31804/4 "2019-12-18T08:22:30Z")