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Quote: "Linux is gradually entering the mainstream"
To me that is an issue, I think #linux is slowly moving into a #windows clone. Between #wayland, #systemd and #gnome, eventually it will act like #windows. That is because #linux is now controlled by big-corp.
At this point I think people, especially people who remember the old days, would be better off to moving to a #BSD. At least to me it seems the various #BSDs still care about their users,
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If you've ever been to one of the Linux install workshops run by the #endof10 project and @be4foss , there's a chance you've interacted with "little-my".
She'll now go out to pasture in my test hardware rack, where her broken body will no longer be a problem, and she can frolic away her remaining days running builds and test suites in #HaikuOS, #9front, and various #BSDs.
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6 #BSDs worth trying instead of #Linux
https://www.howtogeek.com/the-bsds-worth-trying-instead-of-linux/
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We need alternatives that work:
1. #Technologists: #Smartphones need #customizable #alternatives like PCs with #Linux or #BSDs. NOW is the time to double down on it.
2. #Governments: If you really care about your #sovereignty, we need #regulations and strict #laws against this abuse, and the #corporate stranglehold of the #component_market.
3. #Consumers: Vote with your wallet! Prioritize your #freedom over short-term #savings. This is a time-tested strategy.
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Thanks!
It's a great little OS! Only complaint is that it's a little slow to resume from S3 suspend (about 8 seconds), but it does so reliably.
Some intensive processes like opening bloated web pages incur a bit of a hiccup/delay, and I'm not sure why. I know the kernel scheduler is tunable, but I haven't found out how to go about doing that yet.
They're trying to target laptops more, so there's still some work to be done.
Of course, heavy Linux games don't run (haven't been able to get #KerbalSpaceProgram to work on #FreeBSD yet), but simpler linux executables can run (even GUI ones), and the
pkgrepos are quite exhaustive, about as many binary packages as Debian (around 150k), from my estimation.No flatpak, no Steam, so binary sources are limited, but there's tons of FOSS software that just runs without trouble.
The handbook (installable as a package or available on the web, both as html and pdf) is quite good, and fairly exhaustive, and to me, the biggest feature of the #BSDs is that they just make sense as an operating system, and aren't a haphazard and ever-changing collection of FOSS parts, like Linux distros are.
FreeBSD does take some manual configuration to get a GUI going, but it's honestly pretty easy, and the handbook tells you exactly what to do. They will have a GUI install screen in the installer soon, so that will become automatic.
I've got it running with #Wayland and the #Sway compositor, almost no issues. For some reason, neither i3status nor waybar have the ability to show Wifi link name and quality, so I developed my own little front-end script for i3status to restore that (I had to do the same thing for #OpenBSD for RAM usage).
I've had to come up with my own way to make sense of memory usage (a script that mimics Linux'
freeutility) and wifi link quality, but those were fun problems to solve.After a week or two of hacking around with it and getting all my own scripts and little utilities working with it, it has now become almost completely transparent and gloriously "boring." Basically the same as running Linux for most everything I do. XD
It has fewer pain points than #OpenBSD (which I honestly love as well, don't misinterpret me): a rock solid filesystem (ZFS), and full emoji support (lol priorities, amirite?).
It also has very good full-disk-encryption baked right in, which I'm missing from #NetBSD (but plan on playing with that OS later on as well, because I want to try ALL THE #BSDs! XD )
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I used to game on Arch too. Worked pretty well.
There's also the #BSDs in case you're not aware although not really for gaming. Just alternatives so you don't feel like you're in another walled garden like Apple and Microsoft.
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@amin @daniel @sotolf @OpenComputeDesign @jp
Also, htop has braille graphs available, too. You just have to hunt through the options.
Not quite as purty as btop, but still extremely useful.
Most of the time, I just use this:
alias s='COLUMNS=999 top -bin 1 |head'Because how often do you just sit there and watch htop? I almost never do. I just want to know right then and there how the system is doing, and what's eating up the resources, and that alias is perfect for that:
~ $ s top - 12:07:57 up 4 days, 1:50, 7 users, load average: 3.71, 3.13, 3.12 Tasks: 449 total, 3 running, 446 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 5.0 us, 15.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 75.0 id, 5.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 31811.8 total, 10477.4 free, 9630.5 used, 13957.3 buff/cache MiB Swap: 34991.0 total, 33129.0 free, 1862.0 used. 22181.3 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 15288 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 23.5 0.0 1:49.72 kworker/0:3-events 26378 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 23.5 0.0 0:37.77 kworker/u32:5+USBC000:00-con2 11140 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 11.8 0.0 0:20.64 kworker/6:2-eventsNote: if anyone's saying "why don't you just use
top -w999, the answer is that the alias is written to work on Linux and all of the major #BSDs. ;) -
Fortunately, it's all very linear and (hopefully) pretty easy to understand. I'd like to think that if you stuck a
set -xat the very top, the output would be pretty easy to mentally parse. It's mostly just if statements ;)All Debian-based and most rpm-based distros should work out of the box, in addition to homebrew, flatpak, snap (eww, lol), and even pipx, cargo, and rustup.
Also, the three major #BSDs, of course! ;)
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@royal @fedora @SlashNevSlashDull
Wow, that's really #wholesome
Don't anyone forget @debian and #slackware, though! The grand-pappys of them all! ;)
And also, the other part of the #FreeSoftware OS family, the #BSDs! #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonflyBSD and derivatives, take a bow!
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Lots of responses already but I want to make a suggestion to look at other alternatives too.
The #BSDs are a decent option too. Maybe slightly more involved depending on your hardware. I'd recommend #GhostBSD (more traditional feel), #helloSystem (more like old Macs) or any Linux distro really.
Could also try WSL on Windows if you want to try something else.
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That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/
#NetBSD #Xen #Virtualization #SysAdmin #Containers #BSD #BSDs #IT
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With #BSD, there's no silly info pages or html help (at least as a primary source of documentation). There's just REALLY good manpages, especially on OpenBSD. FreeBSD comes with (or it might be an optional install) their excellent handbook as a PDF you can peruse at your leisure. Again, NetBSD I have the least knowledge of.
My experience with the big three #BSDs:
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📢 Introducing the #FreeBSD Security Advisories and Errata Notices Bot! 🤖🔒
This bot, on an hourly basis, will monitor the rss feed from https://www.freebsd.org/security/feed.xml and share the headlines and links to the latest articles.
Happy reading! 📰💻
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📢 Introducing the #NetBSD Security Advisories Bot! 🤖🔒
This bot, hourly, monitors the rss feed from http://www.netbsd.org/support/security/rss-advisories.xml and shares the headlines and links to the latest articles.
Happy reading! 📰💻
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It's time for an #introduction.
I'm glad to meet you! I'm the barista and main administrator of the bsd.cafe and illumos.cafe instances (and other projects), a computer science enthusiast who's been fascinated by technology since childhood. I'm a big supporter of open-source solutions and enjoy working with #BSDs as well as #illumos based OSes and #Linux systems. I enjoy #music and #photography. I've been an avid traveler and am now looking forward to getting back to traveling.I'm married to a wonderful wife and strive to live each day with a positive attitude,making the most of every day to improve our lives.
I like writing blog articles, especially tech ones (https://it-notes.dragas.net) and, from time to time, some of them are widely appreciated, especially in the open-source community.
Thank you for passing by and reading my introduction, enjoy your stay here in the #fediverse
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Time for a new #introduction
I'm glad to meet you! I'm a computer science graduate who's been fascinated by technology since childhood.I'm a big supporter of open-source solutions and enjoy working with #BSDs and #Linux systems. I enjoy #music and #photography, and plan to often share my photos.I've been an avid traveler and am now looking forward to getting back to traveling.I'm married to a wonderful wife and strive to live each day with a positive attitude,making the most of every day to improve our lives.
I like writing blog articles, especially tech ones (https://it-notes.dragas.net) and, from time to time, some of them are widely appreciated, especially in the open-source community.
Thank you for passing by and reading my introduction, enjoy your stay here in the #fediverse
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I backed up all my files.
I made USB boot disks of various #BSDs.
I made a clonezilla clone of the entire disk.
I booted into the #FreeBSD disk and was about to wipe out #OpenBSD.
At the last minute, I decided to go through pt.4 of @rootbsd's OpenBSD setup video to see if I could squeeze any more performance out of it.
No better, as far as I could tell.
I went through OpenBSD Guy's (YT) OpenBSD performance video.
Still 25+ seconds to open up Firefox. :'(
But......
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Haha. I can't wait to see you guys reviewing some of the #BSDs. That would be a trip.
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Trying Out The #BSDs On The #Intel Core i9 13900K "#RaptorLake"
-- Of #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD & #DragonFlyBSD, only one managed to boot out-of-the-box on the latest-gen CPU.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/BSDs-On-Intel-Raptor-Lake
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/1598358406372511746
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@RL_Dane @mjgardner @benjaminhollon
While wanting to avoid License debates, #BSDs are free to use #GPL code in core, they just have to follow the license. It's mainly OpenBSD that tries to get rid of all GPL, which gets slightly extreme at times, like their recent effort to rewrite #rysnc to get a non gpl version. #FreeBSD has so much #linux compat stuff running I doubt they can keep GPL out of core, but don't know. I really only pay attention to OpenBSD anymore. #doas > #sudo for sure though