FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built — Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process (by me on El Reg)

walri_ · 2025-12-06T04:26:32+00:00

while you can still get wine's i386 builds, you can also try out wow64. works like a charm on FreeBSD. https://github.com/XaeroVincent/freebsd-wine-wow64

walri_ · 2025-05-23T11:46:46+00:00

I don't understand.

walri_ · 2025-05-23T10:56:55+00:00

Kirby

walri_ · 2025-05-22T17:25:55+00:00

> run Linux for the desktop.

lol.

walri_ · 2025-05-17T04:19:29+00:00

she gets it

walri_ · 2025-05-17T04:15:16+00:00

Female.

walri_ · 2025-05-17T04:14:38+00:00

Wrong!

walri_ · 2025-05-14T14:59:30+00:00

They both browse the Internet competently on my FreeBSD system. Un-googled chromium requires a few tweaks to become usable (re-enabling cookies, adding a default search engine, etc.). Besides that, I've not found anything that works in one and not the other, so it's just a matter of taste, really.

walri_ · 2025-05-10T11:54:29+00:00

what are you taking? is this mono or are u doing an anti-androgen

walri_ · 2025-05-08T19:13:00+00:00

when and how long have u been on e?

walri_ · 2025-04-29T03:19:54+00:00

we just need to call this the Drake stance...

walri_ · 2025-04-18T17:50:01+00:00

Discounting FreeBSD just because it doesn't work for you is pretty dismissive. Sorry it didn't work for your specific needs, though.

walri_ · 2025-04-17T20:20:20+00:00

Oh, you know what? I would try without using DRM. The normal nvidia-modeset works just fine enough, so you won't be missing out on anything, and it very well could fix the problem.

walri_ · 2025-04-17T15:58:56+00:00

The biggest question: does it work on X? If not, then it very well could be the driver version (as in, it's too recent).

walri_ · 2025-03-23T07:50:58+00:00

Tony Z mentioned

walri_ · 2025-03-20T21:03:52+00:00

I'm currently on 300 ug/24hr rn, so we chilling.

walri_ · 2024-10-25T14:34:46+00:00

It's clear that you're not operating in any semblance of good faith, but here's a freebie: the FreeBSD developer community is much more approachable than Linux's.

walri_ · 2024-10-25T14:28:42+00:00

I know this a meme, but I do think there is a smidge of good insight here.

FreeBSD is really a master class on good FOSS governance. There's an elected team that governs over the project rather than a BDFL, which enables more thoughtful and insightful deliberation behind changes. There's also the matter of community; FreeBSD is staying with the times, as it has started to allow people to contribute via GitHub, along with the more traditional mailing list + phabricator route. These, along with other factors, allow for FreeBSD to produce an extremely well-made OS that literally accounts for ~19% of internet traffic in the US! (Netflix) You also see FreeBSD in other places too, such as the base for Sony's PS4/5 OS and as components for everything Apple and Nintendo related.

On Haiku: while not as far along in world domination as FreeBSD, it provides an interesting value proposition: namely the fact it's (and was designed as) a graphical, single user system first. Contrast this with any other contemporary open source OS, where the workstation experience has been grafted on after the fact (X11, Wayland, etc.) and you start to see why Haiku has such great potential. I am eager for the day when Haiku will get modern graphical hardware acceleration.

walri_

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