NexRebular

> SMB is a nightmare to set up if your host isn’t running Windows.

It's very easy on illumos based systems due the integrated SMB/CIFS service.

At least the two Descent: FreeSpace titles...

Or if you'd prefer not to contribute to linux monoculturalization, FreeBSD is available in addition to the other BSD variants and even illumos-based systems.

Unless you are running SUN CoolThreads(tm) servers!

> Or you know... just use Linux

...where namespaces provide excellent technology for hiding malware making linux one of the best platforms to turn into a evil host.

I've even seen namespaces used for hiding malicious software in Ubuntu systems too.

It is possible, yes, but I would prefer to have full linux-free support for production use. There is on-going work for FreeBSD Cuda, though[0]. Just have to wait and see.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-04-2024-06/#_part...

Most of our server infrastructure runs on illumos at $work. SmartOS/Triton handles our "cloud" and OmniOS runs our storage. The linux monoculture problem luckily can still be handled with zones and bhyve, and I do trust illumos developers' competence to deliver good quality secure software a lot more than linux developers' as well.

Now if FreeBSD (or indeed illumos) would get CUDA-support we could stop using linux for GPU nodes too.

So the capability-based security framework is not missing unlike your original statement?

> I'm pretty sure, that the BSD family is pretty mature and secure.

Not to mention illumos-based systems too.

> They are still missing something like capability based security

...like Capsicum?

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Capsicum

Linux monoculturalization is not great news. We should deploy e.g. *BSD and illumos as well to prevent having all eggs in one basket.

> I've always wondered why only Linux can do 'true' containers without VMs.

Solaris/illumos has been able to do actual "containers" since 2004[0] and FreeBSD has had jails even before that[1].

[0] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa04/tech/full_papers/... [1] https://papers.freebsd.org/2000/phk-jails.files/sane2000-jai...

> How hard is it to emulate linux system calls?

FreeBSD has linuxulator and illumos comes with lx-zones that allow running some native linux binaries inside a "container". No idea why Apple didn't go for similar option.

I use Vivaldi[1]. Also has built-in ad-blocker although I'm not sure how good it is compared to Ublock or others.

[1] https://vivaldi.com/

Which I used until they stopped releasing prebuilt packages without subscription.

It really is a tragedy that git monoculture is winning over Mercurial, Fossil and other better designed alternatives. Don't even have a nice github-like service for Mercurial anymore as Bitbucket decided to give up.

> Windows has always been usable if you have a suitable ASIO

The gold standard being RME hardware and drivers. Not a single issue ever on windows.

"At that moment, Iran said, when I had the TV sound off, I was in a 382 mood; I had just dialed it. So although I heard the emptiness intellectually, I didn’t feel it. My first reaction consisted of being grateful that we could afford a Penfield mood organ. But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing the absence of life, not just in this building but everywhere, and not reacting — do you see?"

I am not a jazz musician. I can't generate their music, all the nuances, the improvisation or the feeling... in other words the human factor of their craft 1 to 1 with a press of a button.

But what's the point of spending time and thought for music prompted by others? What I can generate sounds exactly as good and has the exact same value...

But why would I ever want to listen something generated by someone else when I can just generate infinite amount of the same stuff myself?

They should make it easier to download the songs. There's so much music that could be used commercially instead of expensive licensing. Someone could even set up a venture to record era-appropriate AI music to a cassette or vinyl and start selling them.

Oh, the joys of infinite public domain music!

Or OmniOS with Napp-It

what Solaris and now illumos zones do[1]

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa04/tech/full_papers/...

Nebula has NAT punching as well[1]. Or does Tailscale do even more magic on it?

[1] https://nebula.defined.net/docs/config/punchy/

Maybe Nebula? You can do one yaml config file with all the certificates and firewall rules making it easy to script device provisioning too.

> For some people the goal of Linux is to become the world's OS.

This is extremely worrying. There already is enough linux monoculture in critical network infrastructure due every manufacturer except Juniper seemingly putting their penguin eggs into one basket. I can only hope there will be some common sense brewing for the future before linux experiences major failure and Pluto's Kiss starts to feel a bit too real for comfort.

or CU-SeeMe

Office v. X on a Powerbook G4 12-inch. Can't get better than that...