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DaveCharlieLenon Back to FreeBSD: Part 1

> I hope FreeBSD never gets too "Linux-y"

What would that mean?

DaveCharlieLenon Back to FreeBSD: Part 1

> the viral GPL licence

this was the key part for Linux success, but also it was a network effect thing, if you want users for a unix they likely would use Linux, so give them a driver on Linux and redirect people. Then having the kernel binding be malleable led to more people just opensourcing the drivers if they had an actual product or just vendor the linux kernel otherwise.

DaveCharlieLenon $30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents

And what CC item can you point to for that. Teachers often have to write the actual thing they are teaching as a CC item on the board. Want people to teach tech, go to meetings and make them.

DaveCharlieLenon Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

I want to love FreeBSD I have run it for multiple years on my servers. But there is always something off. The linuxulator works okay, but not great, and not great isn't good enough. Like WSL1 worked better than Linuxulator at least as of last Jan when I tried. The WINE story was even worse(do a jail for x32 things and run x64 normal). I do love FreeBSD but it is hard to take seriously as a desktop OS when some regular things are way too hard to get working.

DaveCharlieLenon Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

> I need an ARM64 machine. Period.

>After spending time on Apple’s M1/M2 Macs (coming from a large x86_64 desktop), going back to x86_64 feels like a regression, both in performance and battery life. Unfortunately, there’s currently no FreeBSD-supported (or even Linux, as far as I can tell) ARM64 laptop that truly rivals Apple Silicon. I really hope Framework or someone else changes that in the coming years.

I thought the parent maybe was off base, but that is literally all the reasoning.

For guidance the arch doesn't impact battery life or performance as much as a specific process node and model. There are slow as shit x86 chips from VIA(maybe? I just retired a node that ran on one.) and fast ARM64 chips, but any high end Ryzen will blow an ARM64 chip out of the water on most real benchmarks I run(HPC stuff, lotsa matrix multiplications and such(CUDA and double float performance is too much premium and yes I have done alot of profiling and benchmarking.))