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The dead and the reborn BSDs

July 3, 2024 The dead and the reborn BSDs2024-07-04T23:58:25+01:00 2 Comments apocalypse, Chimera, DesktopBSD, FreeBSD, GhostBSD, linux, longread, NetBSD, NomadBSD, OpenBSD, PC-BSD, systemd

The BSDs, especially FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, are far from being dead. The problem is that they never targeted the desktop users, especially not the laptop users. Here's what…

Béranger on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1Even if we only consider the increased complexity of the firmware alone, and the abysmal decrease in the writing speed,
Aldus on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1As for SMR, it's worth noting that it's not a bad design from the perspective of the manufacturers. Basically, it's
Béranger on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1By chance, I discovered some rants about file systems in the comments section for an unrelated article on The Reg.
Béranger on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1A bit of nostalgia: Liam Proven on Amiga's 1980s pre-emptive multitasking GUI and the beginnings of Windows, then on the
Béranger on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1Since I've been asked about Btrfs, here's my take on it: ● Btrfs is a copy-on-write (COW) filesystem, which is
Béranger on The dead and the reborn BSDsI got even more depressed after having read this great classic: Microkernels are slow and Elvis didn’t do no drugs.
Béranger on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1Excellent. I can hardly wait GNOME version 80, whose file manager will have no file management features at all. What
Aldus on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1Well, it's progress because more people are using it. And the designers adapt the product to the level of average
Béranger on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1Gicule, Costine, don't be an ass! Beau cafea ca Balzac, dar nu vreau să mor din cauza asta.
gicu on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1Atunci n-aveai dileme "care cafea decaf e mai bună", "care pastă de dinți e mai eficientă", chestii d'astea. Și aveai
Béranger on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1Now, I can sense a problem with the stupid design of NTFS (although Recuva refuses to recover in place even
Béranger on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1With SSDs, you literally have NO control over what its controller does! However, there should be an API that fucking
Aldus on One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1Here is a simpler, if not much better answer: The reason why you always must recover to a different partition
Béranger on The dead and the reborn BSDsSince I was asked, here it is, in my opinion, the list of the mainstream Linux distros that matter. All
vinnie on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)Yes, I think it is a repology mistake, the mantainer results "fallback-mnt-chimera@repology".
Béranger on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)Chimera Linux has a much larger developer team than one member! There are: q66 (the founder), psykose, deathmist, zdykstra, triallax.
vinnie on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)Then, so far I've just read a little bit on the site and it doesn't appeal to me very much
vinnie on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)okay, I'll look for chimera :)
Béranger on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)Haha, try Chimera Linux ;)
vinnie on SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)Well, however with musl there's less compatibility, and it's slower. I've been an Alpine user, but Alpine even being a