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firewire: remove deprecation notice from manual page · freebsd/freebsd-src@e7efe2f
Reviewed by: ziaee, imp Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58267GitHub
RE: mastodon.social/@_elena/116165…
Good morning Fedi friends.
I just updated this post from March. It used to say:
"Year 4 (2026)
I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication"
Since I am fully invested in mesh experiments, I thought it deserved a refresh.
Spoiler alert: Year 5 will probably be about learning #FreeBSD 😅
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
My experience of the #fediverse : Year 1 (2023): It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms. Year 2 (2024): I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"...Elena Rossini 🌈 (Mastodon)
With this commit, #FreeBSD has retired the last GPL licensed code from its base. The FreeBSD 16 base system no longer contains any #GNU tools.
github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src…
Retire the GNU subtree · freebsd/freebsd-src@134a4c7
With GNU diff and cdialog gone, this is now an empty shell. Reviewed by: markj Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55425GitHub
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Switching from Desktop Linux to FreeBSD.
👾People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux-based or Unix-based operating systems today. Take FreeBSD’s customized desktop version GhostBSD, for example. The basic summary here is that GhostBSD is rather impressive and easy to set up for a desktop.👾
<https://www.ghostbsd.org/>
⁉️One of the most significant differences is probably that Linux is just a kernel, with [usually] the GNU/Hurd userland glued on top of it to create GNU/Linux. GNU and BSD userland are similar, and yet different, with varying levels of POSIX support. This effectively means that FreeBSD is a singular OS with rather nice documentation. Also FreeBSD have single package manager [pkg] for all derivatives that’s simplifies things a lot. The bhyve hypervisor makes running VMs a snap. A robust ZFS filesystem is also a big plus.⁉️
<https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve>
What counts against desktop FreeBSD in the end is a less refined experience in some areas, despite FreeBSD being able to run Linux applications courtesy of binary compatibility. With some developer love and care, FreeBSD might make for a nice desktop alternative to GNU/Linux before long, one that could be tempting even for the die-hard Windows holdouts among us.](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5668752 "You may like:
Switching from Desktop Linux to FreeBSD.
👾People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux-based or Unix-based operating systems today. Take FreeBSD’s customized desktop version GhostBSD, for example. The basic summary here is that GhostBSD is rather impressive and easy to set up for a desktop.👾
<https://www.ghostbsd.org/>
⁉️One of the most significant differences is probably that Linux is just a kernel, with [usually] the GNU/Hurd userland glued on top of it to create GNU/Linux. GNU and BSD userland are similar, and yet different, with varying levels of POSIX support. This effectively means that FreeBSD is a singular OS with rather nice documentation. Also FreeBSD have single package manager [pkg] for all derivatives that’s simplifies things a lot. The bhyve hypervisor makes running VMs a snap. A robust ZFS filesystem is also a big plus.⁉️
<https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve>
What counts against desktop FreeBSD in the end is a less refined experience in some areas, despite FreeBSD being able to run Linux applications courtesy of binary compatibility. With some developer love and care, FreeBSD might make for a nice desktop alternative to GNU/Linux before long, one that could be tempting even for the die-hard Windows holdouts among us.")
FreeBSD 15 probably will include KDE as DE installtion option
The devs are busy working right now in offering KDE as DE during the FreeBSD installation process. KDE Desktop Installer Option For FreeBSD 15.0, our goal is to extend the FreeBSD installer to...The FreeBSD Forums
