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What misinformation? That the number of FreeBSD desktop users is minuscule. I challenge you to check the percentage of FreeBSD developers at a FreeBSD DevSummit or one of BSD conference. You will be surprised how low is the percentage of developers using FreeBSD as a desktop. Ask wblock@ he was...

Listen kid. My kids will be heading to college in few years. I am done changing diapers and babysitting. I have no interest in helping somebody who showed 0 effort based on this and your question about K3b to read the documentation and make an attempt to understand how FreeBSD works. Go get...

The same reason other 10000+ obsolete ports are kept in the ports tree. Lack of man power of political will to prune obsolete crap. It makes FreeBSD project appears bigger than actually is. Very low standards when to be a port committer. In particular very few people use FreeBSD on the desktop...

vermaden Thank you for that great post. Alpine Linux can do root on ZFS although I am not running it in such configuration. However the fact that it uses musl and BusyBox makes it running on the desktop challenging to say at least. Even worse musl doesn't play well with NFS but it is not...

The article is not very deep but for what is worth it is fairly accurate. Last's year DEFCON 25 and 34c3 Ilja Van Sprundel security audits are well known across BSDs communities and they are taken very seriously. Some people who recognized themselves in the Ilja's valid critiques are still...

Here Brendan Gregg who was a kernel and performance Solaris engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems and later at Oracle Corporation following its acquisition by Sun is recommending to all former Solaris users to switch to Linux...

HPLIP is a set of Hewlett Packard open source drivers, small programs which take PostScript stream and convert to whatever proprietary language cheap HP printer speak. Good printers speak PostScript, can print ASCII code out of box and speak LPD (Line Printing Daemon protocol) as well IPP...

Let me go step further and propose something even more radical. Why don't you have a live debate with few competent critics (former disenfranchised PC-BSD/FreeNAS server users) and power desktop users on BSD Now. That would at least give you guys some credibility going forward even if might not...

The main difference between OS X and a "primitive" UNIX system like FreeBSD are: the use of launchd instead of rc.d scripts, PLISTS instead plain text files, and most importantly the lack of modern file system on OS X. However the last one should be fixed soon as soon as OS X completely...

No it was originally until 2010 developed by the Gentoo Linux and NetBSD (in that particular order) developer Roy Marples. The rest of the history https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/HISTORY.md I can answer that for you. Because actually most FreeBSD developers (unlike Open and...

Three pages and 59 posts later not a single soul mentioned the biggest problem with TrueOS as supposedly desktop OS. TrueOS is ZFS centric. ZFS requires ECC RAM lot of it. Personally I am not familiar with a single laptop on U.S. market which ships with ECC RAM. I am not even sure if you can...

Good for you. However most of us have no luxury of cheery picking job assignments and alienating paid customers. Even people who work in academia like myself have often times to do things the way our PI investigators want or feel the most comfortable with rather than what we think is the most...

Just to add to this wonderful write up by Vermaden. The first time I played with PC-BSD version 1.3 was in March of 2007. I have a very low registration number on their now locked forum. Although I have never used much as a desktop system I deployed half dozen TrueOS 10.0 (server version of...

Maybe I am a bit byes as an astronomer by my undergrad training but It is probably easier to use Julian date of the Julian epoch as intermediate step. http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/JulianDate.html http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/JulianEpoch.html before converting to UNIX...

If the minor update doesn't involve new kernel by all means. I am not aware of any serius UNIX like system which can be updated without the reboot if the updates involve kernel. However knowing few things about Dragon Fly virtual kernels and Minix I think it is entirely possible to design such OS.

Xorg default window manager is twm not fvwm. Xenocara does come with twm but when you start X OpenBSD by default you get fvwm. OpenBSD includes third window manager cwm (It is OpenBSD fork of Calm Window Manager also in FreeBSD ports). It is very popular among OpenBSD users and personally I have...

The recommended driver is hl1250 which is a part of Ghostscript package http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-DCP-7020 so setting printing is trivial. I didn't bother even to look for the scanner driver http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html because Brother...

It is a moving target with debug flags enabled all over the place. debug flags are prescription for sluggish performance. The OP should be well advises to stick to his Arch Linux. ZFS is mighty file system but his anemic desktop processor and tiny 8 GB of non-ECC RAM are prescription for...

Did you run newaliases after updating the file?

Alpine doesn't come with glibc so getting "standard Linux desktop stuff" to work is actually more involving than FreeBSD. Alpine's learning curve is probably even steeper than FreeBSD's. I am using it as a Xen Dom0 :) My desktops/laptops run vanilla OpenBSD and at work I also have bunch of Red...