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Much like Google's Fuchsia, FreeBSD is an alternative that has compatibility for Linux binaries.
by skibz 5y ago
Much like Google's Fuchsia, FreeBSD is an alternative that has compatibility for Linux binaries.
- mathfailure 5y agoNo, it has not, that's a myth. Nothing works there properly.
- pjmlp 5y agoIt works well enough for Playstation developers.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y agoNetBSD kernel has Linux compatibility. (NetBSD had it for years before FreeBSD.) For simple applications it works well. Fortunately I prefer simple applications.
- pshirshov 5y agoBut not an alternative when we need memory safety or just damn 802.11ac wifi.
- Delk 5y agoThe kernel's still monolithic, and one of the arguments in the video was core system components becoming unsustainably large. I suppose the community woes the video mentions might apply equally to BSD, although I have no personal experience with how those work in that part of the world. If Google developing Fuchsia and (again, as postulated in the video) perhaps moving focus away from Linux is a concern, it might be worth noting that even if there are corporate backers and sponsors of FreeBSD, I don't think there are companies the size of Google, Intel or even Red Hat contributing massively to its overall development. I could be wrong, but I'm not aware of that going on. Pretty much all of the arguments given in the video could be true for FreeBSD or other Unix systems as well, at least if they had the breadth of Linux in terms of hardware support, size and visibility of the community, and corporate connections.
- pjmlp 5y agoThat is the beauty of the license, Apple, Sony can take what they feel like having, and only upstream also what they feel like. There are UNIX like OSes that use microkernels, like QNX or INTEGRITY.