Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.
  • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
    111·
    5 months ago

    I love Linux but I wish the BSDs weren’t getting left behind.

    For the record, I really like macOS and Apple products as my “consumer” devices but all my side projects, web servers, routers, etc. run Linux. I ran FreeBSD for a long time until I got into containerization and Docker.

    • Auzy@beehaw.org
      3·
      5 months ago

      People like Theo De Raadt might have had a fairly huge impact on killing BSD.

      He might have alienated a lot of people from even considering bsd.

      The Linux community also had a lot of help by vendors such as Suse and Redhat who had no problems implementing good ideas which were a bit toxic, but were available in windows. Commercial venders can make a massive difference (as well as government deployments).

      The big problem has been people resistant to change