Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 13, 2023
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Having been a Linux user for what feels like an eternity, there have always been instances where I felt why do we have just Linux dominating. Granted it’s open-source which is great and of course, there’s the Unix family but we cannot exactly claim Unix to be fully open-source – considering the Open Group relationship.
Even though we have the BSD family of truly free and open-source Unix operating systems including OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc there is a need to be skeptical about these systems and their interoperability with the future of IoT devices that will continue to define the landscape of technology going into the future.
=> ↺ I did it, I switched to FreeBSD
For about these past 3 months or so (perhaps even more?) I've become increasingly umconfortable with using Linux as my main operating system - from the oversized package counts and Python-unfriendliness (when it comes to desktop usage anyway) of the Debian family to the obligation to run the absolute latest versions of every base element of your system and update every week if you don't want to spend entire days trying to fix your installation in Arch and everything in between, I have been increasingly wanting to move to a more coherent system, an operating system that would be structured properly as opposed to a bunch of basic tools that have been patched on top of each other and an OS that would allow me to customize my workflow with as little extra fluff as possible while simultaneously keeping a base system that won't change until the next major release.
...and from there, enter FreeBSD.
=> ↺ Tomorrow night: mug.org talk on OpenBSD Filesystems
I’ll be doing my talk about OpenBSD filesystems tomorrow night, for mug.org‘s online meeting.
=> ↺ There are two levels of isolation when building Linux packages
Neither RPM nor Debian packages provide hermetic builds out of the box. For RPMs, mock provides an all-in-one solution that's generally very easy to use. Debian has the sbuild collection of tools (also, sbuild(1)) that, based on my reading, provide the tools you need to do this (I only recently found out about sbuild and haven't tried to use it). If there is a convenient mock-like front end to sbuild and its other tools, I haven't spotted it in Internet searches so far. Ubuntu does have a Setting up sbuild document that makes it look fairly straightforward.
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