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Xorg works much better now, first boot is significantly faster, and tools used for writing the installer image into disk can safely work with partitions extending above 4GB or over 4GB size.
> Apple M1 SoC support, e.g. the M1 Mac Mini. AsahiBSD soon?
Long live NetBSD.
My system uptime is counted in years.
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Arguably, macOS is a BSD variant. Much of the userspace UNIX utilities and a lot of the networking stack were forked from FreeBSD. Although it's not the nicest showing, because Apple doesn't pull updates very frequently; a two decade old TCP stack has a lot of issues, Apple added MPTCP and nice PMTUD, but doesn't have SYN cookies, so I wouldn't run a public server with it. Maybe you can find a BSD shell account somew…
macOS is a fair candidate. Second hand Mac can be cheap, esp Intel-based. Hackintosh / VM is also a candidate. OPNsense, PFsense, TrueNAS, Sony Playstation, Nintendo Switch, Juniper, Ruckus/Brocade, ... Give OPNsense (in a VM) a whirl as replacement for OpenWrt. I like it a lot. > I use Linux for work, so I have to go back and forth between ifconfig on my home boxes and production Linux, but ip addr on my dev box. An…
> Despite popular misconceptions to the contrary, Horizon is not largely derived from FreeBSD code, nor from Android, although the software licence[14] and reverse engineering efforts[15][16] have revealed that Nintendo does use some code from both in some system services and drivers. For example, the networking stack in the Switch OS is derived at least in part from FreeBSD code.[15] Nintendo's use of FreeBSD networking code is legal as it is made available under the permissive BSD licence, and not even particularly unusual – for instance, the Microsoft Windows XP TCP/IP stack was originally derived from BSD code in a similar fashion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar...
I still use netbsd as my main desktop, since more than 15 years and counting. Long live NetBSD. My system uptime is counted in years.
I've been interested to try out (Net|Open|Free)BSD for a while. I mostly code and compile C code. What should one expect when going from Linux to either of these BSD systems?
the SuperDimensionalFortress has been around since the 80s and is now one of the largest installations of NetBSD in the US/world. Membership gets you such perks as: email address, a private (invite-only) Mastodon instance, a hosted Matrix instance, and more.
While you aren't an administrator on the SDF instance, you can definitely get a sense of what it's like. Different membership tiers get you access to different tools: Free users don't get IRC outbound, MetaARPA members are granted access to the big disk store and hosted websites and even development tools.