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X.Org on NetBSD - the state of things: NetBSD and X11, which is used by many people to get a graphical environment on NetBSD.
January-March 2024 Status Report: The January to March Status Report is now available with 21 entries.
Why FreeBSD Continues to Innovate and Thrive: The dynamic and disruptive technology industry has witnessed many shifts within its overall landscape, including changes that have forced long-term technologies to adapt and evolve. FreeBSD is no different. Each new release demonstrates its commitment to continuous improvement and adaptation to meet the ever-changing requirements of current and future users across industries. What does that mean exactly? Let’s look at the most recent releases and what’s next.
BSD Now 557: 17h per frame: Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted, Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial & review, OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released, OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations, Book 8088, Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates, FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update, Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: ‘reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast’, and more.
Tutorials
A Change for the Better? - NomadBSD 140R-20240126: NomadBSD is a BSD OS that has it’s own identity and purpose - and it has had a somewhat big change from OpenBox to XFCE. Does that improve or spoil this great OS?
Why I run BSD: There’s multitude of Operating Systems to choose from. You may have been using something like Windows or MacOS and be perfectly happy with it. You can step up and use Linux, Haiku or even Amiga OS. So, why do I think a BSD system may be a great choice?
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