Also noticed that #DNSCrypt provides a large amount of binary distributions for #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonFlyBSD, #Solaris, among several other OSs, plus many architecture-specific binaries. That is really nice! Next thing will be deploying it on the beastie server.
❝Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it. …❞
I vividly remember when, less than 20 years ago, they used to ask me, "Why do you want to do this with Linux|Free|Open|NetBSD when it can be done with Windows? Everyone uses it!" Today, the question is similar but different: "Why do you want to do this on Free|Open|Net|DragonflyBSD when it can be done with Linux? Everyone uses Linux for this!"
The problem is precisely this: if everyone is doing it, do we really take it for granted that it's the best solution? I stay informed and have everything in production: all the BSDs and many Linux distributions, choosing the best tool each time, in my opinion, to achieve a result.
Why people always feel the need to conform to everyone and everything, and continue to decide what's better based on trends, personal beliefs, or social conventions, will forever remain a mystery to me.
The first few pallets of Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040 Series) are on their way out of Taiwan to Batch 1 customer doorsteps! We're looking forward to seeing what you all think of them.
If you have a computer that features an Intel GPU, today might be the best day to #RUNBSD :runbsdBg: just like it was for the past decades. The inteldrm driver on *BSD doesn't contain this bullshit.
Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'
This is a 2013 #Apple#MacBook Pro Retina - born unlucky, it has encountered many hardware issues - but it has been serving in the office for handling some minor tasks. #MacOS is now outdated, so I've decided to install a #BSD on it.
However, I'm still unsure about which one to choose. I might experiment with all of them on four external disks and evaluate their performance.
Today has been a beautiful sunny day, not too hot, and I decided to take a break and relax, anticipating another busy week ahead.
While performing a #duperemove on a #btrfs file system (and it seems that soon this will be possible on #zfs too!), I'm reading about the progress #hammer2 is making on #OpenBSD (https://github.com/kusumi/openbsd_hammer2). This would be a winning combination, as the versatility of the excellent file system of #DragonflyBSD and the security of #OpenBSD would be an incredibly powerful union. Let's hope the development continues smoothly without any major issues!
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:
I spent the weekend refreshing the BSD cloud images on https://bsd-cloud-image.org/. This may be a good resource for your if you're curious about the #BSD OS and you would like to quickly spawn a bunch of VM.
These unofficial images are tested with #OpenStack and Virt-Lightning (libvirt on Linux) but they should work with any cloud.