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  1. Beastie7

    Patriots or Seahawks?

    Rootin for the New Seattle Patrihawks. Cause ‘Murica.
  2. Beastie7

    Is the High Price of RAM a Good Opportunity to Promote FreeBSD?

    This is a great opportunity for the project research into dynamic memory compression; something macOS has had since Mavericks. No need for slow SSD swapping.
  3. Beastie7

    GNOME & Firefox officially brain dead.

    When you try to imitate Apples' design language without understanding vertical integration - you get brokenness like this in the open source ecosystem. Eliminating the scroll wheel click only makes sense when you give users something like the Apple Magic Mouse. In fact, Red Hat wants to be...
  4. Beastie7

    BSD family of licenses and consumer rights

    What part of “Only if that portion of derived code is release under the same license by the distributor.” do you not understand? Permissive licensing involves no restrictions on derivative code. No liability, nothing. This is not hard to understand. The BSD license was specifically designed to...
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    BSD family of licenses and consumer rights

    There is no legal attribution behind permissive licensing outside of copyright notices (in case of BSD licensing)... that's the entire point. Suppliers are not liable because permissive licensing carries little to no restrictions (via source or binary). The supplier can do whatever they want...
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    BSD family of licenses and consumer rights

    ... imposing little to no restrictions to redistribution is the sole benefit of permissive licensing. What's your point here? The BSD license keeps things transparent between the consumer and distributor. There is no deception involved here. The only thing that is required are copyright notices...
  7. Beastie7

    So now RAM will also have firmware blobs [ARGH!]

    So this is like Intel ME for DIMMs? Ridiculous.
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    Do you use FreeBSD on metal as your daily driver? Which version? What DE or WM do you use? Do you run any other OS alongside or virtually?

    Although I daily drive macOS; because the filesystem hierarchy is so well laid out and navigable on FreeBSD i'd recommend a WM + your own tweaks. Configuration of the system is pretty easy because of that. My WM of choice would be Qtile or XMonad because it's all in Python/Haskell - easy to...
  9. Beastie7

    Your choice of cell phone OS

    XNU memory safety in iOS is second to none. The memory enhancements in the new iPhone 17s and iOS 26 alone is a compelling reason to utilize one. Seems like the closest thing to CHERI on the market IMO.
  10. Beastie7

    Solved Xorg/Xlibre Megathread Disappeared

    Some brave soul will eventually fork GNOME3 for xlibre compatibility. Hopefully many of you are aware of the enfacements to Xorg the freedesktop maintainers were gatekeeping. That's not some trivial thing. Only time will tell I guess. Quartz continues to spoil me either way. 🙂
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    Solved Xorg/Xlibre Megathread Disappeared

    Let me give you a secret. The Red Hat detractors are bigger than Red Hat. The issue is coalescing.
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    Solved Xorg/Xlibre Megathread Disappeared

    I think ignoring the contingencies behind manipulating the open source desktop ecosystem is shortsightedness at best. If you understand the systemd debacle, you understand the xlibre/wayland debacle. Of course it's political, because the perpetrators themselves, are political. "xlibre" is long...
  13. Beastie7

    The Case for Rust (in the base system)

    I wouldn’t be surprised if prominent C developers take refuge here. The imploding over there continues.
  14. Beastie7

    Learning principles for FreeBSD OS to develop cloud computing software with Golang

    However you go about this path, in the context of a third party port - should you decide to proprietarize any part of it; you lose the benefit of garnering contributions from the community. No one is going to work on third party proprietary software for free. So if that is your objective; forget...
  15. Beastie7

    The Layman's Rust Thread

    "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly" - Henry Spencer Rust for Linux (*ahem* GNU/Linux) is the second edition of the above quote.
  16. Beastie7

    The Layman's Rust Thread

    I'll raise you one. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alex-Gaynor-Rust-Maintainer
  17. Beastie7

    The Layman's Rust Thread

    Nobody is making a serious push for Rust in base. No-one. Only a couple committers are making (weak and unconvincing) arguments for Rust in userland based rewrites. Even the case for that pointless. FreeBSD has already made this mistake before importing Perl in base and it ended badly. Most of...
  18. Beastie7

    The Layman's Rust Thread

    Except these aren't important issues. These discussions were nonexistent until the Linux community decided to adopt Rust in their mainline tree. Linux migrants flock to the FreeBSD forums thinking it's going to adopt whatever new shiny-ness the Linux community is experimenting with. FreeBSD...
  19. Beastie7

    I think FreeBSD support for Mediatek Filogic routers would be awesome

    How exactly? Explicit documentation from Chinese SoC manufactures is a pipe dream; which is a deal breaker. Also, who's to say they're even honest with what their documentation describes? Instead of hardware specs, try selecting a manufacture you can trust, and one with better transparency of...
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