Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD's strategic move toward broader adoption

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15 points·grahamjperrin··5 comments

What's great is the rest of the BSDs will integrate improvements.

Investment in the BSDs is goodness.

I installed FreeBSD on my old laptop a few days ago. With WiFi, desktop and everything. Pretty much everything worked except for HDMI-connected monitor. And my Linux is not listed in boot menu.

They took an investment from a new startup (Quantum Leap Research) focused on national security.

In the press release, the CEO of Quantum Leap Research, Jim Miller, said: “Quantum Leap Research believes FreeBSD is an excellent choice to serve as the foundation for a new secure computing initiative given its long history of security and stability,” said Jim Miller, President of Quantum Leap Research. "Quantum Leap plans to run FreeBSD on contemporary laptops as a hypervisor-like solution using Bhyve to virtualize other operating systems, including Linux and Windows."

https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/9234109/quan...

> Quantum Leap plans to run FreeBSD on contemporary laptops as a hypervisor-like solution using Bhyve to virtualize other operating systems, including Linux and Windows.

Are they gonna sell laptops running FreeBSD with a virtualized Windows guest as "more secure" to the US government?

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