Comments by "" (@dingokidneys) on "DJ Ware" channel.

  1. I heard that Europe is looking, once again, at replacing a lot of proprietary software with FOSS/Libre software. Hopefully they would also contribute monetarily to the FOSS/Libre projects.
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  2. Maybe this just points to Canonical not knowing how to properly test systems. Still I'm not so sure that I'm keen on systemd taking over the world, or at least not the server world.
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  3. It worked well enough for me in KVM to get used to installing it such that I was comfortable installing it on hardware. Then the real fun begins.
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  4.  @jacobwerner8533  I recently started playing with FreeBSD on an ancient (2008) Dell laptop and on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. The Pi is running FreeBSD 14.0 and I have it set up as a file server with SSH, Samba and NFS for Git/remote admin, Windows shares and sharing to my Debian system and the FreeBSD lappy. SSH seems solid as a rock between Debian 12.5 and FreeBSD 14.0 and from the FreeBSD 13.2 lappy back to my Debian system as well as to the FreeBSD file server. I couldn't get FreeBSD 14.0 on the lappy; too old and crufty I guess. I tried for a while but gave up. FreeBSD 13.2 seems not to handle the touchpad properly as no tap-to-click, side-scrolling or two-finger scrolling which worked with Debian on it. I also have problems with Sleep and Hibernate but the hardware is ancient and I don't rely on it for anything and I wouldn't read anything into this as regards more modern hardware. The little Pi has been rock solid. Only problem was with a power outage and I didn't really know how to bring a UFS filesystem back on-line cleanly but I've learned a bit more since then and bad power is much less scary now.
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  5. That is so tiny. Very cool indeed.
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  6. I've been using FreeBSD for a file server and an ancient laptop and it works really well - except that I haven't got full trackpad functionality nor webcam. I haven't been really trying for a while as they don't much matter on that machine. I like the file server. I have it running on a RPi 3B+ just to see how minimal I can go. I don't use ZFS on either machine as they are so underpowered. UFS seems to work just fine. I've also been using Alpine on a tiny ASUS eeePC 701 because Alpine is tiny and provides a 32bit system. I use it headless essentially like another RPi and it's great for the purposes I put it to. I wouldn't use Alpine on a workstation as you're stuck with BusyBox rather than the full-fat GNU utils but, for a tiny server, a container or IoT type situation, it's great.
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  7. Always fascinating to delve into the history of some of these technologies.
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