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FreeBSD Co-Founder Jordan Hubbard Ports DHH's Omarchy Desktop to FreeBSD as Daemonarchy, Coding With Claude
Jordan Hubbard, one of FreeBSD's original founders, has shipped Daemonarchy, an installable FreeBSD ISO that recreates Omarchy's Hyprland desktop, with most recent commits co-authored by Anthropic's Claude.
Hubbard’s repository describes the project as “DHH’s opinionated Hyprland desktop, ported to FreeBSD,” and explains the name in one line: “Omarchy’s -archy, ruled by the BSD daemon.” It isn’t a fork of anything Linux. The Register’s Liam Proven describes it as a “collection of FreeBSD ports” that Hubbard “collected together into an installable ISO image,” and counts “18 new FreeBSD ports of Linux tools in a month” under his jkh@freebsd.org address.
The pace is the other story. The repo was created October 1, and its release page shows a first ISO the same day, version 1.0.0 on October 9 and 1.3.1 on October 25. The Register puts it as “in approximately 10 days, Daemonarchy has gone through 10 releases.” Of the 100 most recent commits on the main branch, 59 carry a “Co-Authored-By: Claude” trailer.
Hubbard didn’t wing it, either. The Register notes that the repo’s agent instructions point to his Literate AI project, which its own description calls “A meta-harness for coding agents to follow proper Software Development Lifecycle practices,” “Based on literate programming ideas from Donald Knuth.” Its README says “generated source is disposable” while the specifications stay the authority.
What you get on the ISO leans on things FreeBSD already does well. The README says ZFS boot environments are saved before every Omarchy update, with hourly and daily snapshots, and Jails, bhyve and DTrace on hand. The 1.3.1 image is “2,041,176,064 bytes, under 2 GiB.” The installer also offers a “Remote agent debug” mode that opens SSH (port 2222 by default) so a coding agent can inspect a machine booted from USB, once the user approves the agent’s temporary key fingerprint.
The hardware list is short and candid. Hubbard’s test machine is a 2019 16-inch Intel MacBook Pro, the MacBookPro16,1, which “passed pre-production checks by operator confirmation.” Another target is still failing: “The MSI Raider 18 HX still resets during early kernel startup.” The 1.0.1 limits say “NVIDIA GPUs get no driver.” The README also says “Version 1.2.0 was not published,” so the version numbers skip a step.
The README carries a plain disclaimer: “Daemonarchy is not affiliated with or endorsed by Omarchy, the FreeBSD Project, or The FreeBSD Foundation.” Omarchy’s own code is “used under the MIT license.”
The Register says the inspiration came from a LinkedIn thread about FreeBSD 15.1 on an Nvidia card, where one commenter wrote that “omarchy will get us the youngsters.” Daemonarchy runs on FreeBSD CURRENT, which becomes FreeBSD 16, planned for December 2027. That leaves more than a year before the base it targets is a release, and the FreeBSD project still hasn’t said whether code like this is welcome upstream.