BSDNews.com has a whole slew of new articles, some of which have been linked here before. Rather than call each out individually, I’ll say go, look.
A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
BSDNews.com has a whole slew of new articles, some of which have been linked here before. Rather than call each out individually, I’ll say go, look.
The article on the Linuxulator reminds me of a horrible thought that’s recurred this week — how insane (and how much of a bikeshed) would it be to design one ‘standardized’ BSD ABI?* This wouldn’t have to be a primary thing, more like one more target for pkgsrc and its brethren, but it’d make “BSD on the desktop” a mildly saner prospect.
I’m imagining something that only versions itself every 5+ years, so you could build a distribution around ‘universal’ packages, choose your kernel, then worry about native builds for packages where system-specific features really matter. Seems like the common subset of features is growing, but each distro is still maintaining COMPAT_… code for each other at its leisure, and Linux remains the lingua franca because at least there’s only one (thousand) version(s) of it.
*’ABI’ used here because binary compatibility is what matters.