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> commercial entities
iXsystems, Inc.: sponsored commits in three FreeBSD source trees:
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/eb0bf1a03b64e14d9288cbd...
Created last week, a snapshot of that point in time, I don't intend to update it.
If a release candidate is installed, then it's generally recommended to track the releng branch (not stable).
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gunion&sektion=8&m...
There's more, but that's the first thing that comes to mind.
They certainly did. Yosemite shocked me.
I'm a former Mac user (1992–2014; AppleSeed programme member 2009–2014). The GUI of OS X 10.10 Yosemite drove me away from Apple. I gradually switched from OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks to PC-BSD. Then TrueOS, then FreeBSD-CURRENT with KDE Plasma.
Realistically, I can't use NNTP for things such as inline graphics e.g. screenshots.
Not as funny as things changing without you noticing ;-)
Check out the use cases and testimonials:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/what-is-freebs... https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/testimonials/
If you wonder why the first of those two pages is entirely rewritten: see what's going on with the Enterprise Working Group.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/EnterpriseWorkingGroup
Please note, that group's work is necessarily focused. There's a definition of 'general purpose enterprise server', and so on.
Other groups have focii that differ from, or overlap with, general purpose enterprise server. Most obvious: desktop and embedded.
HTH
I mean: I think of the CDN having its control system in addition to controlled appliances, and so on.
"Netflix delivers streaming content using a combination of intelligent clients, a central control system, and a network of Open Connect appliances. …"
Netflix portrays FreeBSD in the Open Connect software context:
Pleasantly under the radar:
Not one person alone.
>> … please note that I’ve discussed this at length with countless members of the community over the past couple of years, and several have shared strikingly similar experiences in confidence. …
Notifications in Discord are a PITA. And the rest, yeah.
I can't speak for Vince, but he's clearly unhappy, so I give him plenty of slack with freedom of expression.
NNTP is not looking good for the Project. Please see, for example:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/192271/253798105-4...
At the time, mid-July: "twelve on-topic threads this year – overall, probably not bad enough to justify delisting."
NNTP looks far worse for other groups that are promoted.
Thanks
Alongside Discord, we have the /r/freebsd subreddit; a Matrix instance (not yet listed); The FreeBSD Foundation on Mastodon (not yet listed); and so on.
The last update to the Community page was by me. In an ideal world: I'd now add what's missing. In reality: I chose to resign (my doc commit bit was taken in for safekeeping).
Side note: when I last checked, servers for The FreeBSD Forums were not (officially) hosted by The FreeBSD Project.
HTH
It took me by surprise, but there was no controversy.
A good web forum is vastly superior to mailing lists.
Matrix, with suitable clients, is vastly superior to IRC.
I'm above the age of thirty-five by twenty-three years and three quarters.
I'm right on all counts ;-)
"… On Nov. 20, a pair of iOS developers known as Mysk discovered that Apple has a specific identifier (a “directory services identifier” or DSID) for every Apple iCloud account. …"
– as if Mysk discovered this. Not so.
DSID-related analysis was performed more than seven months earlier – by a group of five researchers, including four at the University of Oxford.
Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Max Van Kleek, Reuben Binns, and Nigel Shadbolt. 2022. Goodbye Tracking? Impact of iOS App Tracking Transparency and Privacy Labels. In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 508–520. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533116
(Version 1 was submitted on 7th April 2022.)
If RES is resident memory <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1&manp...>, what's RSS?
airyxOS, based on FreeBSD, aims to provide "… the finesse of macOS with the freedom of FreeBSD. …".
I wish well to projects such as this, however I rarely engage – testing and feedback – because the focus on Apple keyboards is too much for me.
(I taught myself to use the keyboard in a very different way when I switched away from Apple after twenty-something years. I don't intend to un-learn that switch.)
Sadly, in relation to AMD GPUs:
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=257810#c5>
>> … disable dri 3 in xorg.conf (use dri 2)
From the quote at <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/548305>:
>> … KDE Plasma Wayland, which was working in September, is now broken. It’s not just my laptop, it’s on my workstation (AMDGPU), on the spare machine (Intel iGPU) and the laptop (Intel iGPU). I have chatted a bit with Plasma developers, but the debugging is on me, unfortunately.
If you _do_ find Wayland working for KDE Plasma e.g. the option in SDDM, please join the discussion at <https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/kde-wayland.80167/> – thanks.
The notes exist, but only in draft form; a skeleton.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262300
I drafted the corresponding pull request around the time of the PRERELEASE, which preceded the first beta.
I should not treat notes as final until RELEASE occurs.
* the article showed FreeBSD getting 20.3 for compression level 8
* with vastly inferior hardware I got around thirty-six percent better (27.7)