Cool 😎 Anything developed fro FreeBSD can be ported to Linux if needed.
Unfortunately improvements made on Linux can’t be ported back.
This is due to the license terms, But this is also the reason IBM, Google and many others have to contribute back to Linux, and Apple doesn’t to FreeBSD.playstation run on freebsd too
I was completely unaware of that, but it checks out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4_system_software
No doubt FreeBSD benefit big corps, but big corps have problems benefiting FreeBSD.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_system_software playstation 3 too, also Nintendo switch using some parts of freebsd as I’ve heard
Very happy to read that, but honestly, when reading “$1 million USD” as investment sum, it reads more like an advertisement stunt than a real investment. (Like, 2 senior developers for one year?)
We need more diversity in Open Source operating systems for desktops, laptops and any of the *BSDs is a great candidate. (Would love to see Haiku getting some sponsorship or even ReactOS!)
But why?
There are BSD shops out there. Not everyone wants to live under GPL restrictions.
Helping FreeBSD stay afloat. But maybe there is a license issue from companies point of view: BSD-2-Clause vs. GPL v2.
Cool, bsd works fine for laptops, but the power management is pretty shit.
Also the wifi support too.
Otherwise I love my freebsd thinkpad, works great when plugged in, but again the wifi is painfully slow.
Can’t they just port the Linux drivers?
Easier said than done, and they can’t copy because gpl.
Ahh right, BSD vs. GPL license.
Can the drivers be ported with a different license if it is not included with the BSD licensed operating system?
Absolutely.
They partly were, they’re just not given nearly the same attention and are often terribly outdated and less engineered.
Also they aren’t tested as thoroughly, there was a call for hardware by the FreeBSD team not that long ago that I can’t find, they simply don’t have the same kind of resources.
Most FreeBSD dev is focused on server hardware like for Netflix and its ilk, I don’t know many other people who use it as a daily driver.
The shittiness of that stack of laptops in the photo hurts my soul
I dunno, it looks like two framework laptops and a modern macbook pro. They could be doing far worse if that’s what those are.
This photo?
Should be an international war crime. Who the hell stacks laptops like that…
worked well for apple.
