Woke up this morning #BSD curious. For all the users out there, is there a reason for someone running Linux desktop to consider running #BSDDesktop (of any kind or flavor), or is it more useful to have as a tool for servers? My only previous experience with BSD is brief dalliances with TrueNAS.
25 years ago today, Google was founded.
On the same day, I wiped Windows 98 off my computer, believing that Debian Linux (which I had been using for a while but still kept Windows on another partition) could do everything I had been doing with Windows until then.
Since that day, many installations of Linux, *BSD, MacOS have graced my computers, but Windows has remained, on a few occasions, only an occasional (unwelcome) guest.
In the spirit of a typical support group phrase, I can joyfully say:
'Hello, I'm Stefano, and I haven't been using Windows as my primary operating system for 25 years.'
Honest question for the #rust developers out there. I've observed several pretty high profile OSS projects recently, which are written in rust but are not cross platform. Well at least as far as Unix is concerned, it's Linux or nothing.
This is super unfortunate, not only as a #BSD user it locks me out from using these tools...but it also introduces a pretty big blind spot in terms of development which can lead to fragile and/or insecure systems. The whole "monoculture is bad" thing.
So folks hacking on #rust - what do you feel is lacking that makes it easier to write portable code?
Sitting patiently whilst Julie re dyes my hair aka regingering reading about #FreeBSD of all things. I've read about the differences between #Linux and #BSD and now I'm onto the ports system and OMG I'm nearly tempted to give it a whirl on my trusty old test laptop. :freebsd:
How many folk have if any have switched from Linux to BSD and if you have please tell me why and what you prefer over the former ?
The idea of some kind of microkernel project aimed at the #bsd world has been floating around between me and some of my lab colleagues for some time now.
I think the overall rationale has coalesced enough to warrant talking about it. I will probably aim to produce some kind of vision whitepaper on this, once I get clear of some personal stuff.
Autism is an atypical neurology, a unique brain wiring crowd cheers in applause
This atypical neurology leads to atypical processing, cognitive functioning and communication, differences in social interaction and sensitivity to sensory inputs such as sound or light. crowd nods in approval, light golf clap
Perhaps if the majority of the population is Windows... nervous laughter, scattered cries of affirmation
...then autistic people are Mac! crowd boos, hurls tomatoes towards the stage
I've been re-reconverting a lot of my "stuff" to the BSDs (Free, Open, Net). It's refreshing. The Linux every-tool-has-to-be-a-swiss-army-knife ethos is exhausting after a while. The relative simplicity and clean organization of *BSD (especially OpenBSD) re-affirms my fondness for UNIX-y things.
You might think there's not that much difference but, in many cases, I'd rather admin a BSD box. Try it, you'll see.
Also, NetBSD is soo lean, it has made my old Pentium III almost useful again. Even with 333Mhz and 128 MB of RAM 🙃
Hey #BSD friends. I want to try some bsd as my daly driver. Work and everything and I need some help to find live systems to try on my hardware. Any recomendation? #freebsd, #openbsd, #netbsd will work for me.
The thing why Linux can't really thrive among "normies" is because we don't have an entity to think about UX and implementing new UX things. Maybe it's because Linux is only a kernel and not a whole operating system. Maybe BSDs would perform better among "normies" when they would get better in UI.
I miss Frost OS (spelled, FrostOS). Sadly, DMCA knocked out FrostOS.
FrostOS allowed you to natively run BSD, Linux, Apple, and Windows apps all on a single system. As you can easily suspect, it violated so many trademarks and copyright claims.
Frost OS was the operating system that truly showed what people were capable of if people truly worked together and there was far less bureaucratic red tape.