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This whole "userland and kernel" thing sounds good, but in my BSD use, the trade-off is that most desktop app packages (and ports) get a whole lot less attention and are more buggy than those in Linux. I imagine it's not a problem for servers.

Yes. Exactly.

I needed to script something for a FreeBSD server, and I was doing the development in Linux. It would have been OK if I had used Ruby/Python/Perl, etc., but I decided to do it in Bash. I had to make quite a few fixes when I got the script on the FreeBSD box. Then I deployed it to an OpenBSD system. More fixes.

Most of the Tilde sites allow users to post standard web pages (i.e. using http/https).

I have used both. I'm a BIG Unison fan.

Mozilla is BATHING in money.

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201...

Now that Chromium doesn't allow bookmark sync, Vivaldi is one way to get a very Googly browser without going to Chrome.

OP went through a lot of trouble.

Debian's Chromium package hasn't been updated since May. It's a bit of a problem.

Substack and free-to-paid newsletter services in general, dev.to for tech.

Agree. The main issue with using rpi as a desktop is the slow disk i/o. M2 on the board is what RPi 5 needs.

This is a decent investment for coders. Good tools make all the difference.

I didn't realize cPanel was such an attack surface.

I get what you are saying in 2), but anybody who wants to fork the code, let them have at it.

Your position is extremely reasonable and realistic. I commend you for stating it openly.

I bet 98% of the use cases for CentOS 8 can be more than adequately handled by CentOS Stream. And Rocky Linux (and probably a few other clones) are on the way.

I just installed yesterday. I tried an in-place upgrade from Buster, but that didn't work, so I did a new install. So far, so good. It's an interesting time to be running Bullseye because it includes GNOME 3.38, which is what you get in Fedora 33 and Ubuntu 20.10.

I think Fedora is using Btrfs now. Does Dropbox not support Fedora and RHEL?

How well does OneDrive work for files that aren't MS Office files?

Syncthing is solid. Maybe a little too geeky for most, but for tech-minded people it can really work. I've had little issues here and there, but it definitely solves some problems for me.

I generally use Dropbox for personal files and Syncthing for business. It's a great setup to keep those things separate.

On Sunday, Dec. 20, a new version of Chromium entered Sid:

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1203594/accepted-chromium-87...

I know the OpenBSD community agrees with you. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152871660307018&w=2

The Chromium web browser in Debian Buster hasn't been updated in more than six months. That is a problem.

The idea of running BSD and it going well is one thing, but in practice you have to really want it. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are better (and easier) than ever, but you still give up a lot in comparison with the average Linux distribution, where more things just work.

The BSDs are often great if you stick to the base system, but once you start adding software, things break way more often than with Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.

This is especially true if your hardware is not-a-Thinkpad.

I always wanted to run OpenBSD as my main OS, but for "production" desktop use, I can't deny how much easier/faster it is to get and stay running with Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora.

Working for me now.

That's gooood. Thanks!

Mozilla is definitely NOT equal to your average open-source project like Debian or LibreOffice. The development on those projects is done entirely by volunteers. Maybe some of those "volunteers" are paid by companies to be contributors, which is the case with the Linux kernel.

But Mozilla is a large company. It may be a nonprofit, but there are HUNDREDS of millions in Google money funding the company and paying salaries for the 1,000 (??) or so employees, including, as mentioned above, a very well-compensated C-suite.

Firefox and whatever else Mozilla produces is funded with this very, very large pot of money. Could they run the Mozilla operation on $10 million (or $20 million) a year and invest the rest ($90 million to $390 million) a year in an endowment that could ensure Mozilla's independence in perpetuity? They could do that, but like many nonprofits, the "profit" goes to a large number of well-paid people. I can't think of another open-source project with such enormous funding that isn't part of a for-profit company.

Red Hat isn't asking individuals for money to fund Fedora or RHEL development.

I don't know what crazy universe a company -- even one hiding behind the framework of a "foundation" -- gets $100 million to $400 million a YEAR from Google -- and still has the chutzpah to ask individual users to make a contribution.

I love Firefox, and I absolutely agree that browser diversity is important. I use Firefox daily. But Mozilla is a huge outlier -- a "nonprofit" dragging in hundreds of millions and spending it. Do you think Debian collected more than $1 million last year? I'm not sure it did. It sure didn't get $100M or $400M. Mozilla is a huge company. It just doesn't have shareholders.

Is anybody using Pharo? I'm interested.

This is a nice discovery. Thanks!