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catanama | 1 year ago

FreeBSD is not weird, it's a good and very reliable OS, I'm very happy this happens.

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razakel|1 year ago

FreeBSD is excellent if your use-case is flinging bits as fast as possible, but it is kind of niche. Who else is going to fund them? Netflix?

BSDobelix|1 year ago

>Who else is going to fund them? Netflix?

So you don't have to do the "research" yourself:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYea...

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYea...

BTW: Those are just the monetary donations towards the foundation, additionally you have developers that are directly paid to work on the FreeBSD project (search for "Sponsored by"):

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.1R/relnotes/

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.3R/relnotes/

nwellnhof|1 year ago

There's also a lot of FreeBSD code in Apple OSes.

gruturo|1 year ago

Can't argue it's niche but it's far from uncommon. The BSD licensing allows usage in places allergic to the GPL so you see it (or don't) often used behind the scenes in lots of products.

...and I'm writing this comment on a Lenovo T450s running FreeBSD. Dang can probably verify the user agent of my POST, if he has nothing better to do (pretty sure he does).

The experience is not perfect (just _now_ I'm enjoying fighting with a deskhop (https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop) which isn't seen as a ums pointing device unless another usb mouse is also present, but that's the first problem in months (admittedly it's also the first change in as many months)).