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  1. Beastie7

    Why FreeBSD, if I may..

    One System One Project One Community Simple/Free license
  2. Beastie7

    TrueNAS build system will become closed source

    If FreeBSD had a more modern and predictive means of managing services (ie. SMF); there wouldn’t be much need of an all-encompassing GUI layer.
  3. Beastie7

    Important persons in your country.

    Absolutely; I completely agree. But it was the internet that allowed humans and systems to communicate on a global scale. For example, I'm able to chat with a relative from the opposite side of the planet due to the inventions from these two men. I can't thank them enough.
  4. Beastie7

    Important persons in your country.

    Vint Cerf and Bill Joy. Co-creator of the original TCP/IP protocol suite. Which was later modeled on BSD Unix through a collaboration with Bill Joy. To some he's (Vint Cerf) the renowned "Architect of the Matrix". He even looks quite similar to the character in the movie too. Reality can be...
  5. Beastie7

    General FreeBSD Setup (New User)

    Go through vermadens tutorials on setting up a minimal openbox configuration. You don't have to use Openbox but the process involved applies to almost any minimal WM. Really pay attention to all of the configuration files involved and where they're placed. Due to FreeBSDs well design file system...
  6. Beastie7

    FreeBSD technology cemetery: states and stages of decomposition.

    The release notes. Start reading them.
  7. Beastie7

    Why are FreeBSD users seen as black sheep? (+ thanks)

    A BSD licensed, Qt rewrite of gnome-panel would be much more sustainable IMO. Leave the GTK/GNOME/systemd mess, its shit UX, and its terrible community to Redhat.
  8. Beastie7

    Patriots or Seahawks?

    Rootin for the New Seattle Patrihawks. Cause ‘Murica.
  9. 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.
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. Beastie7

    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...
  13. Beastie7

    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...
  14. Beastie7

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

    So this is like Intel ME for DIMMs? Ridiculous.
  15. Beastie7

    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...
  16. 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.
  17. 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. 🙂
  18. Beastie7

    Solved Xorg/Xlibre Megathread Disappeared

    Let me give you a secret. The Red Hat detractors are bigger than Red Hat. The issue is coalescing.
  19. Beastie7

    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...
  20. 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.
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