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FreeBSD Celebrates 25th Anniversary, Tuesday, June 19th

posted by takyon on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the still-free dept.

canopic jug writes:

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that the name FreeBSD turns 25 years old on 2018-06-19. The mailing list archives contain a thread about name selection with with a message containing the following suggestion

How about just simply "FreeBSD"? No confusion, no fuss, seems like a good compromise to me. :-)

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by frojack on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:41PM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:41PM (#695305) Journal

    Every couple years I take another look at FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Even tried NetBSD.

    It usually gets pretty tedious pretty quickly.
    As a general purpose work platform, you are always way behind the feature curve of just about ports package you would want to use, therefore requiring you to build them from source. Of course the source is usually not intended for FreeBSD/OpenBSD, so there's a bunch more waiting for that source to become available, or patching yourself.

    Pretty soon you are spending at least half your time maintaining your platform, while getting little other work done. FreeBSD fans love this because they actually have nothing else to do other than install and tweak their OS, and belittle anyone using any graphical interface apps.

    I suppose its time for me to start yet another tilt at the FreeBSD windmill, because I'm getting pretty sick of OpenBSD.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:58PM (#695344)

    I use OpenBSD exclusively, except for a few ARM boards that aren't well supported, and I've always found ports to be pretty up-to-date. The only ports I've modified from the original is urxvt to add the scrolling support patch, and a git flavor of luakit because they changed a bunch of configuration stuff and I didn't want to rewrite all of my configs to be compatible with the last stable release, and both were painless and easy. I am running -current though. Are there any particular packages you're referring too? I've found OpenBSD requires much less fiddling on my part than linux and I love how it all just works instead of requiring hacking around idiotic distro-maintainer choices and shit breaking with every update.

  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Wednesday June 20 2018, @02:40PM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @02:40PM (#695595)

    As a general purpose work platform, you are always way behind the feature curve of just about ports package you would want to use.

    So that they can be guaranteed stable and reliable, unlike where they are on the bleeding edge, and things that were working keep falling over in a heap.

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