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I have a lot of sympathy for the BSDs. I actually learned Unix with NetBSD in 2004. Problem with BSD nowadays, at least for me, is that all supported desktop ha
by geff82 10y ago
I have a lot of sympathy for the BSDs. I actually learned Unix with NetBSD in 2004. Problem with BSD nowadays, at least for me, is that all supported desktop hardware is really old. The newest, still available, Laptop that works is the Lenovo X240 (and other x40s....). And when everything works, like on my Samsung NP530, there is strange stuff like a super slow and unreliable Wi-Fi connection. So if you want a great OOTB development experience with the same, working, OS on Desktop and server, Linux is the way to go...
But I cannot help and sometimes try the BSD stuff out, as it feels like "my parents home".
- aaron-lebo 10y agoThe lead dev of Dragonfly worked to get it working on: https://www.amazon.com/Acer-C720-Chromebook-11-6-Inch-4GB/dp/B00FNPD1OY https://www.amazon.com/Acer-C720-Chromebook-11-6-Inch-4GB/dp... That's a sub-$200 Intel Haswell machine. It also means Dragonfly (as well as the other BSDs) work fine on similar hardware. Similarly, you can put together a modern sub-$300 desktop that will run it just fine. Also see: http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2016-May/500352.html http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2016-May/500...
- milcron 10y agoOpenBSD 5.9 runs on Broadwell: http://www.openbsd.org/59.html http://www.openbsd.org/59.html