It's a Unix clone. Originally, Berkeley licensed Unix source code from AT&T and built upon it, but then anyone who wanted to use it needed to pay a ton of money to AT&T. So they rebuilt it without any of the original code and gave it away under the BSD license.

Berkeley hasn't released an update in 3 decades though, so it lives on through forks.

Different BSD forks have their own package managers. I would imagine they all have dependency resolution, otherwise a package manager is kinda pointless.

Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD and I believe so does AMD. So it's really mostly a question of whether your networking and sound are supported

Me too. I'm still on macOS 15 because I can't stand the mess they did with Liquid Ass on macOS 26+.

I'll just move to Linux Mint in a few months...

You know, I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough in BSD stuff, other than it's another Unix-like system like Linux. Or is it an actual Unix distro?

What's the difference between the various BSDs out there?

How are software packages managed? Is it through a package manager? Does it have dependency resolution like Apt does?

It must be hard to find supported drivers for BSD no?

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The team states no proprietary Windows code is copied or transcribed.

But what if they have looked at it before?

I’ve been a Mac user for years but now that Apple has decided to add a pop up to tell me to upgrade to the subscription version of iWork (and won’t stop nagging me all the time) I’m moving to LibreOffice (and eventually full Linux).

Because both Microsoft Office and iWork have become so dependent upon AI and subscriptions and LibreOffice just comes out and says “hey we don’t use AI and by the way, want a free office suite that’s just like the big ones before they enshittified?”. Of course people checked it out.

Hopefully others take note.

Love LibreOffice, and have been using it on my MacBook for about a decade now… but with all the hubbub about ArtCraft’s CraftApps, I tried em out, and I gotta say, I might be switching.

From when I tried Kolibri on VM, a fair chunk of the software wasn't there yet and didn't really work. So I wish them the best of luck and hope it can become at minimum hobbyist machine levels of working and success in the future.

Iirc redox can run linux under a hypervisor to use its drivers

I wonder how many people saw this coming.

I get the sense that a lot of people were blindsided recently, not only from large recent donations to some groups, and Linus using AI... but also OSI declaring a focus on politics.

Try also WM keyboard. It's a new slop based keyboard but it may be good slop? Maybe. I tested it and I'm on FUTO but I could also grow to like WM. Hopefully the good parts proliferate.

I'll try it out, thanks!

FUTO keyboard does.

I swear there is latency even though I swapped out gboard. Plus, gboard randomly swaps back in.

Is there an alternative to Gboard that allows swipe?

That's the closest I've seen so far. It'd be perfect if it also hid checked items in sub groups without all sub items needing to be checked but I can definitely work with this. Thanks!

if you don't mind scripting a bit, logseq can handle that. I achieved it using tags and a custom query, but I imagine there are more roads leading to that objective.

I use notally-X and I find it's a pretty good replacement. It can even import your Google takeout.

The one feature I'm still struggling to find in a notes app is the ability to automatically hide checked items in a list.

The option mentioned in this article wants to charge me to even consider getting any checkboxes so back to FUTO notes I go till I find something better.

Better to link to the original source than to the MSN portal.

TempleOS

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The only OS sanctioned by the Pope.

A world of pure rust instead of C does sound enticing. But it'll still suffer from hardware support. Well, unless people throw billions of tokens at it to write their drivers and actually share that with others. But I'm assuming people want to leave Linux because of AI use, so that'll also piss of the anti-AI crowd 🤷

There are barely enough kernel devs for linux, I don't know where all the kernel devs for these other OSes are going to come from.

Redox looks promising too. I’m really interested to see if a modern microkernel can be performant.

I don't know why it's worthless but it clearly did not catch the fact that the author says it's made almost exclusively using AI. Seems kind of worthless if it didn't register any AI when the author hasn't even tried to hide it and even states it in public