@gnarkotics@evasb Honestly IBM is no better or worse than the other for-profit tech corporations. All they care about is the capitalism god and the 1s and 0s that pass for money nowadays. It's a good thing that there are #Linux distros that thrive outside of the sphere of corporate influence. #FreeBSD has managed to remain relatively independent and we know #OpenBSD has as well.
(Disclaimer: I know that Wayland isn't all unicorn farts and Lucky Charms for many, especially for my friends in BSD-land. I'm hoping that the growing pains won't be too terrible, but I know they certainly haven't been fun up until this point. FYI #WayBros, "It works great on Gnome/KDE" is not a good apologetic for something that has just gotten past the half-baked stage, and was written in a Linux-exclusive way. But I'm happy so far.)
I'm not sure what the exact syscalls were, but I perused the NetBSD blog post on it, and it seemed to be pretty intense.
Actually, Wayland isn't the only alternative, but I don't remember the name of the other display server. Maybe someone more involved in the #OpenBSD world can fill us in on their plans and progress.
I liked the OS a lot; I just had to discontinue using it for performance issues which I didn't know how to troubleshoot.
All the memes about #RedHat having control over the #Linux and #libresoftware ecosystem may be turning true. If this whole source code situation continues this way, we may have to transition away from Red Hat technology. I'm not even really sure myself, maybe the year of the #OpenBSD desktop or the year of distros without #systemd is coming sooner than expected.
There are now separate build files for #macos and #openbsd. This avoids users needing to make direct changes and instead just slightly tweak the Makefile.
I plan to make a basic tutorial for OpenBSD folks 🙂
My SO made me the lovely diamond painting attached to this Toot.
I was asked (some moons ago) to join the EuroBSDcon board - which I humbly accepted.
My talk for EuroBSDcon 2023 in Coimbra, Portugal was accepted.
I feel so incredibly honored to serve the BSD community that I fall short of words. Thank you all, really - from the bottom of my h3art (pun intended) :flan_heart:
What do I need to know when porting a Linux app to a *BSD? Not using GNU-isms or systemd stuff is obvious, that’s a no brainer, but what else is involved?
(For context, this said app will be a X11 desktop environment (because I want to make sure as many people as possible can use it and Wayland is basically a no go in BSD land… or in every other non-Linux system))
I have an i7 X220 arriving soon (snagged for $120 CDN - what a steal!)
The problem is I'm having an internal debate on whether I should install OpenBSD or Alpine on it. I've been spoiled with #openbsd so far on this X201, but Linux does have slightly more flexibility/ported packages...
Do any #linux folks out there still compile their own #kernels? I've never done this and part of me is thinking I'd like to try it out. In the #OpenBSD world, the one I learned Unix on, it wasn't something generally encouraged.
The more I use and read about #VoidLinux the more I'm leaning towards waving goodbye to my bae #ArchLinux . I'm not 100% sure yet so I've decided to setup my old laptop exactly how I want for daily driving and see how it feels compared to my Arch daily driver. Oh yeah the meme below is just a little fun and you may well have other opinions but I'm starting to feel Void does seem better for me. 🤔
I've been thinking I'd like to give #OpenBSD another try sometime, but I'd still like to find out why the performance on my Core 2 Duo was so abysmally poor. Not just browsers, but everything, including browsing threads in tut were painful.
I guess if all you did was edit code, then hit compile and walk away and get a coffee, then it wouldn't matter. But as a desktop, it was kinda bad.
Switching over from Bitwarden to pass has been fairly smooth. Nothing against Bitwarden, just difficult to run things nicely with that workflow via #OpenBSD
Now syncing all my machines (and via iOS) might prove more difficult...
At CSU Channel Islands, we are building an amateur radio club (KN6ZYB) that aims to be diverse and inclusive. I am looking for best practices in fostering and protecting diversity. Thompson's best advice on this count is to identify other clubs that have managed to do that for themselves.
So I am asking the #hamradio#amateurradio community here: Can you tell me of any US amateur radio clubs you know of that have managed to attract and maintain a diverse membership? I'd like to reach out to their leaders to learn about their management practices.