dreich

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by dreich 4y ago
> [...] This kind of harassment is something I hear about often from many maintainers of projects on SourceHut. It breaks my heart and I feel helpless to do anything about it. I most certainly can't provide an answer here but doesn&
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by dreich 5y ago
I never became comfortable with neither the scope of systemd as a project, nor the ever expanding set of skills required to effectively use it. I was tempted to use the word mastering, but that would make the goal seem even more elusive, es
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by dreich 7y ago
> [..] majority of readers or Docker users have never ever heard of FreeBSD Jails [..] I would argue that said users have never heard of UNSHARE(1) either, although Linux pretty much wipes the floor with anything else when it comes to co
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FreeBSD 12.1-Release Announcement(lists.freebsd.org)
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by dreich 7y ago
> If I may take umbrage to one quote; Netflix uses FreeBSD for it's streaming platform. It is the exception that proves the rule .
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by dreich 7y ago
> The systemd debacle is what led me down a rabbit hole toward the BSD's. Like most, you could have simply moved to a distribution without systemd. Unlike Linux, the BSDs offer less choice when it comes to both init, service supervi
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by dreich 7y ago
> Sorry if this sounds overly critical but I find it inethical to use the Chinese clones of Apple products. Unlike most, not everyone is inclined to pay for the privilege of closed source, proprietary walled gardens (like those from Appl
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by dreich 7y ago
> musl appeals to me because I’m Australian and a sucker for an underdog it has a clean code base, permissive licensing, and is not a GNU project. Although this is as good a reason as any, especially if someone is (politically) biased ag
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by dreich 7y ago
> At least on 12-stable (idk if it made it into a 12.x-release) EVDEV_SUPPORT is enabled out of the box The GENERIC kernel configuration for FreeBSD-12.x-release does not support EVDEV out of the box. It is there however for both 12 st
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by dreich 7y ago
Even as an init system, systemd is far more monolithic and inflexible than existing alternatives as it requires using glibc.
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by dreich 7y ago
They cannot buy AMD.