I’ve been thinking about doing just this, but I haven’t seen any evidence that BSD is actually usable in real life yet.
Linux is actually good today, it’s a viable alternative to the big corpos for virtually anybody, and the community is big enough to be sustainable. Also Steam has made Linux gaming a real thing.
If I could build a little pc to try BSD out on I would, I’d love for the competition to be there… But even a raspberry pi is like $500 today. It’s insane. Fucking AI.
I browse the web, code, and game on it. Works great for me.
My current wishlist is for FreeBSD to have a more robust process supervision system (Dinit I’m looking at you) and for pkg to include some kind of declarative way to build.
Pretty much all the “necessary” things do work on BSD, Linux has turned into a gaming OS for me, like Windows had been before 11 was so bad I just couldn’t do it anymore.
I pretty much use office stuff, and multimedia things, with games thrown in now that I’ve ditched Microsoft completely. Figure Linux could stay on a handheld, like a Steam Deck, and consider it a toy like I had WIndows from 7 to 10 when it was at least functional. There is Linux emulation on BSD, too, and I see a setup guide to run the native Linux Kodi port on it.
Still looks like they allow it as long as it gets approval by the core team. Not saying I agree with that choice, but there’s still a very real chance LLM-generated code makes it into NetBSD.
Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta’s Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.
NetBSD banned submitting “Tainted Code” in their commit guidelines…
https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html
May be time to dump Linux, Linus.
I’ve been thinking about doing just this, but I haven’t seen any evidence that BSD is actually usable in real life yet.
Linux is actually good today, it’s a viable alternative to the big corpos for virtually anybody, and the community is big enough to be sustainable. Also Steam has made Linux gaming a real thing.
If I could build a little pc to try BSD out on I would, I’d love for the competition to be there… But even a raspberry pi is like $500 today. It’s insane. Fucking AI.
Hi! I use FreeBSD as a daily driver.
I browse the web, code, and game on it. Works great for me.
My current wishlist is for FreeBSD to have a more robust process supervision system (Dinit I’m looking at you) and for pkg to include some kind of declarative way to build.
It’s great, I love it, join devil Linux.
Pretty much all the “necessary” things do work on BSD, Linux has turned into a gaming OS for me, like Windows had been before 11 was so bad I just couldn’t do it anymore.
I pretty much use office stuff, and multimedia things, with games thrown in now that I’ve ditched Microsoft completely. Figure Linux could stay on a handheld, like a Steam Deck, and consider it a toy like I had WIndows from 7 to 10 when it was at least functional. There is Linux emulation on BSD, too, and I see a setup guide to run the native Linux Kodi port on it.
Damn it… Ok I’ll think about it. I’m not ready to wipe my laptop for it but maybe I can find an alternative.
Still looks like they allow it as long as it gets approval by the core team. Not saying I agree with that choice, but there’s still a very real chance LLM-generated code makes it into NetBSD.