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I so much agree. I am using FreeBSD on home server (and few others) trying to push it to the limits. I just love it. It seems like order in all the chaos of ope

by stiray 7y ago

I so much agree. I am using FreeBSD on home server (and few others) trying to push it to the limits. I just love it. It seems like order in all the chaos of operating systems (from windows kernel32 getting com objects to all the chaos in linux, from systemd to docker,...). Please if you are trying to use freebsd TRY jails (to shorten tldr, use iocage). They are just great :) And dont go desktop. Just isnt worth it. Not enough people troubling with gfx support. Keep it as it is. Server.

inopinatus 7y ago
There is a variant of FreeBSD with terrific graphics support, and although limited to just one hardware vendor, there’s no doubting its popularity: it’s in every PlayStation 4. There’s FreeBSD in almost every data centre. But it’s at a level most application developers just never see. Many infrastructure elements - from storage heads, to core routers, to enterprise application and security appliances - have chosen FreeBSD as the high quality, reliable, consistent, and liberally licensed base for their control plane software. The point being, this is where FreeBSD has the greatest influence and adoption: as a platform, not the product, and not at all obvious even to those that thereby rely upon it. That being said, yes it works great as the instance OS in EC2 and as a die-hard acolyte since 2.1-RELEASE you’ll pry my production application jails from my cold dead hands
- musicale 7y ago
  What about the Nintendo Switch?
  - inopinatus 7y ago
    I don't think we need enumerate every known FreeBSD derivative to make the point.
  - thejsa 7y ago
    The Switch doesn't run on FreeBSD but rather a custom microkernel operating system called Horizon, which is an evolution of the OS on the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo do use some code from the FreeBSD kernel in the network / sockets stack though - https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Sockets_services https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Sockets_services
- jcelerier 7y ago
  > There is a variant of FreeBSD with terrific graphics support, and although limited to just one hardware vendor, there’s no doubting its popularity: it’s in every PlayStation 4. And since FreeBSD is not GPL-licensed, it has exactly zero relevance as it means that no "lambda person" can use it, write code against it, etc... without paying the 2500$ of a devkit. Sony could write their proprietary drivers for any OS - just look at nvidia which uses the same driver with just a microscopic shim across linux and windows.
  - deleted 7y ago
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atemerev 7y ago
I am a happy FreeBSD desktop user. There are Nvidia drivers. I have installed the drivers, enabled KDE5, and everything just works. Granted, you will need to edit a few configs, but nothing is out of ordinary, easier than in many Linux distributions like Arch.

by stiray 7y ago

inopinatus 7y ago

There is a variant of FreeBSD with terrific graphics support, and although limited to just one hardware vendor, there’s no doubting its popularity: it’s in every PlayStation 4. There’s FreeBSD in almost every data centre. But it’s at a level most application developers just never see. Many infrastructure elements - from storage heads, to core routers, to enterprise application and security appliances - have chosen FreeBSD as the high quality, reliable, consistent, and liberally licensed base for their control plane software. The point being, this is where FreeBSD has the greatest influence and adoption: as a platform, not the product, and not at all obvious even to those that thereby rely upon it. That being said, yes it works great as the instance OS in EC2 and as a die-hard acolyte since 2.1-RELEASE you’ll pry my production application jails from my cold dead hands

musicale 7y ago
What about the Nintendo Switch?
- inopinatus 7y ago
  I don't think we need enumerate every known FreeBSD derivative to make the point.
- thejsa 7y ago
  The Switch doesn't run on FreeBSD but rather a custom microkernel operating system called Horizon, which is an evolution of the OS on the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo do use some code from the FreeBSD kernel in the network / sockets stack though - https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Sockets_services https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Sockets_services
jcelerier 7y ago
> There is a variant of FreeBSD with terrific graphics support, and although limited to just one hardware vendor, there’s no doubting its popularity: it’s in every PlayStation 4. And since FreeBSD is not GPL-licensed, it has exactly zero relevance as it means that no "lambda person" can use it, write code against it, etc... without paying the 2500$ of a devkit. Sony could write their proprietary drivers for any OS - just look at nvidia which uses the same driver with just a microscopic shim across linux and windows.
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]

atemerev 7y ago

I am a happy FreeBSD desktop user. There are Nvidia drivers. I have installed the drivers, enabled KDE5, and everything just works. Granted, you will need to edit a few configs, but nothing is out of ordinary, easier than in many Linux distributions like Arch.