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> Presumably not on mainline kernel. At first it was necessary to compile the realtime-lsm module to allow user programs to make use of realtime scheduling. In late 2006 or so (IIR…

From the article: "I started using FreeBSD in 2016 as a dual-boot with Linux. The reason was that at the time Linux provided no support for real-time threads and preemptive schedul…

> How many developers that could evolve into great developers have been stunted because someone denied them the opportunity to become competent? Nobody is denying anyone. The code …

> I believe that is anti-community in spirit and non-conductive to solving the issue you claim exists. You presumably haven't encountered this issue with your own open-source proje…

>Computers should work for us. We shouldn't work for computers. Dump .txt for .text. If my computer expects me to type an extra letter every time I name a file it isn't working for…

> I wish Digital Ocean would do something about the amount of abuse from their network. Yes. After blocking the usual suspects, the great majority of SSH brute force attempts I see…

> the Left's common enemy is the Right, and vice versa The common enemy of both is the moderate in the middle who prefers rational discussion to confrontation.

> Why are you using legacy BIOS? It has been obsolete for a long time It's simpler. That's sufficient reason for me.

For those of us who still prefer to use legacy BIOS on current hardware when possible, the article is not obsolete. I suspect the downvotes were because your comment comes across a…

I switched to OpenBSD on my desktop and remote server after many years of Linux use. It's now my goto OS for network connected stuff. One caveat: A power cut during the relinking p…

> HTTPS-only is about forcing all traffic to be encrypted by banning clear-text traffic Banning clear text might work for browsers but it would disable ACME clients that rely on pl…

> tripe-filled posts I enjoyed the article and found it thought provoking. Maybe I have tripe for brains.

> Ah, the foundation trilogy. Prepper culture apocalypse fairy tales – but for academians. It was written in the early 1950's. Did prepper culture exist then to the same extent as …

> if we ever rewrite Unix, we can just go with "wd" Thus confusing anyone who uses the 'wd' hard disk driver. https://man.openbsd.org/wd

> ammonia is way too dangerous The thought of working in the confines of a ship's engine room with such a hazardous fuel is horrifying. One reason for the widespread use of diesel …

> All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux! s/All/Most Alpine Linux uses musl libc and busybox, for example.

> Any guarantee they won't change the interface and break my version, while they update both of theirs together? No, I think you can guarantee that the interface will change at som…

> you can trivially disable the persistent journal (I even believe that's the default on Debian) The persistent journal is enabled by default in Debian testing.

> It is very hard to read a long form text in such a narrow column. It displays at full width in Dillo, which has no JavaScript support. I can't see the article text at all in Fire…

> It matters at least somewhat to 90% of the general public and is very important to almost 50%: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/file ... From the linked we…

I switched my desktop to OpenBSD a couple of years ago after ~18 years on Debian. It takes less time to set up the way I want than recent versions of Debian. I make heavy use of tr…

> Note that the author does not respect gender identity/pronouns The article is written in the first person throughout and doesn't use any gender specific pronouns that I could see…

> I think startx now only works if you’re root or have given users additional permissions That was the case for a while but in OpenBSD 6.7 startx works again out of the box, as lon…