With all the refugees from Reddit seeking better places on the internet, I figured I would go ahead and create a community here for Furries who use, or are interested in, Linux to come, hang out, and ask questions.

Whether you are a newbie just starting out, or a seasoned pro who just finished compiling Gentoo, all Linux Furs are welcome here! :)

(I’ll come up with some concrete-ish rules later. Just follow the instance rules for now and you’ll be fine)

  • Johannes Silverfox@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    FreeBSD and NetBSD were first released in 93, but I didn’t hear about them until later. I don’t think I would have been knowledgeable enough to install/use them back then, either.

    I hadn’t done any serious work with FreeBSD until earlier this year, when I set up my blog site on it. I wrote an article about that experience at https://jsilverfox.blog/post/freebsd/

    The site is running well, I…just need to write more articles for it, eheh.

    • Southern Wolf@pawb.socialOPM
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      1 year ago

      Nice, that’s cool! Yeah, I’ve heard that, among those that know, the BSD’s are actually quite well loved for server usage. Still a much, much smaller userbase than Linux servers, but it definitely has a small but loving group for it. Doas is interesting too, I’ve heard of that for Linux too, but haven’t experimented with it. But I know some that do quite like it.

      Course in an only slightly different timeline, BSD Unix would probably fulfill the role that Linux does today too!

      • Johannes Silverfox@pawb.social
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        1 year ago

        That would be an interesting timeline where open source BSD variants have all the hardware support and mindshare while Linux is an obscure project in the vein of Plan 9 or GNU Hurd…no idea how that would have played out.

        • Southern Wolf@pawb.socialOPM
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          1 year ago

          Heh, in theory on our end it wouldn’t be… That different? I don’t expect the licensing for the BSD variants would have changed the outcomes all that much, the BSD licenses are more libre than the GPL even. The bigger issue might be support fragmentation among the different flavours (distros?) of BSD, unless one BSD version came out on top.

          It’d be a weird world without Linux, but still having the Unix wars happen. I guess it’s possible System V would still play a bigger role in that timeline too.