@utahcon Its still early days and its hard to articulate.The most straightforward reason for the move is that all the paper cuts and edge cases are revealed from daily use.As for the why... I would say its a combination of curiosity about the various BSDs, @stefano 's persuasive arguments against computing monoculture, and the charms of an OS lovingly maintained over decades with hobbyists and tinkerers squarely in mind.
In today’s episode of "You can’t pronounce the hostname but you can hopefully read the content", an overview of the two #ThinkCentre that I recently got, centered towards power consumption when running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD.TL;DR: not bad at all!https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/what-about-thinkcentre-m710q-m720q-and-bsd/
@benedikt_lauenburg FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and alike, are a family of Unix-like operating systems derived from the original Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
[Stéphane HUC :: Revues] Promotion de la revue à-propos de : “NetBSD 10.2"> Publication de la version 10.2 de NetBSD- https://huc.fr.eu.org/fr/revues/2026/09/23/netbsd-10.2/#NetBSD
@xfavatax I think much is easier to miss on the NetBSD site, I doubt they have had significant funding/support - hopefully that will change has people realise the Linux ecosystem is more and more tainted by techbros and corporations. I've been looking to get NetBSD working on a RPi 4B and 400 and I a dumb approach of just writing an image didn't work, but I suspect that's down to me not reading enough/properly!
hey big news I don't care what the FSF thinks either, and I'm not a part of "the cause" so please stop yelling at me for misinterpreting your weird little crusades thanksCC: @prahou@merveilles.town @librewolf@chaos.social
@stefano I really hope we see the same commit guidelines from the FreeBSD and OpenBSD projects. They really need to release some kind of official statement on this one way or the other.
