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Perhaps you're unaware that he was the co-founder of the FreeBSD Project; he later worked at Apple, Inc. where he was responsible for the use of BSD in the Macintosh and iOS operating systems.
It became TrueNAS Community Edition a few months ago (last year, maybe).
https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgu...
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True, almost without exception. In some situations I instablock complainers.
> … why is there only half a heart there? …
https://www.peppercarrot.com/gd/viewer/misc__2010-07-21_Alic...
C is coeur (French).
The adjacent Jack of Clubs has only part of the trèfle icon.
Comparable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French-suited_playing_cards#/m...
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964185 for the same article.
Do you have an example?
jruohonen the Bonnie Tyler face (GIF) is for the linked item, not at you :-)
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcXhvaXZydG...
For the benefit of people who don't absorb the entire article (spoiler alert):
>> … AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. …
Colin Percival (FreeBSD Primary Release Engineering Team Lead) longer uses that ID in Reddit.
Instead: /u/perciva
Most recently, in /r/freebsd https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rphd7t/freebsd_14...
All hail.
In <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2025-Augu...> (August 2025), Konstantin Belousov (kib@) write:
> There was a long and hot thread about 'Rust in base' recently. …
Unfortunately, the list archives are not suitably indexed by popular search engines, so, for example, https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=Rust+base+site%3A... does not find what's required. Sorry.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q4-2025-Status-Report includes Michael Larabel's quote from the final status report of 2025:
> At some point in early 2026 the rust KPIs should be stable enough for interested developers to try writing new code with them. They will not be perfect, but I want to make sure they work roughly like existing drivers expect and also fit the expectations of rust developers before asking for testers. Hopefully the Apple drivers will be back up to parity with the initial WIP in C in the first half of 2026 as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/96pm7w/benno_rice_...
> Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd – BSDCan 2018 : r/freebsd
Don't be misled by the title. I thoroughly recommend listening to the whole thing.
There has been a disproportionate amount of negative noise from people who know too little about pkgbase.
pkgbase is a good thing. A very good thing. A huge game-changer, in terms of testing STABLE and CURRENT.
Is that still a problem?
A few weeks ago I noted a change in ARC-related documentation for OpenZFS on Linux. I can't remember the details (I can find them, if necessary) but I do remember that it was a significant improvement for Linux users.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407895
Part of the problem is, too few committers. https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/log/access?h=refs/internal/admi...
> as well as developing quality translations. …
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=267274
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=284875#c8
For Russian, things are better: https://freshbsd.org/freebsd/doc?committer[]=Vladlen+Popolit... – see https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/access?h=refs/internal/a...
It's probably fair to say that trust in Oracle is irrelevant to OpenZFS.
Where Linux does use ZFS: to the best of my knowledge, it's typically OpenZFS – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407937 is my own use case.
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116168374700889783
> Would anyone like to say something? > > …
Maybe slightly optimistic.
https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/#stable/13
True.
I have OpenZFS-native encrypted root-on-ZFS for Kubuntu 25.10, made ultra-simple by the installer for Ubuntu (25.04 at the time).
FreeBSD can not yet do this. Please see, for example, https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263171
> 263171 – add loader(8) and boot loader menu support for boot with OpenZFS-encrypted ROOT
Ahem.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpnd05/comment/o9...> for the ZFS chapter "… telling people to do the WRONG thing, …"
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ru0k9u/comment/oa...> for the ports chapter "… misleading, it was wrongly updated: …"
– and so on.
> … the project's documentation is a gold standard IMHO.
Documentation certainly is not gold standard. I'm a former doc tree committer, familiar with many of the bugs …
I shouldn't overgeneralise.
https://github.com/orgs/FreeBSDFoundation/projects/1/views/3... … and so on.