FreeBSD 12.0 is now available

Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by LeoPanthera on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:08PM (#18660207)

OpenBSD devs actually tend to use OpenBSD on their own systems (and most of them own ThinkPads), which, weirdly, is not the case with most FreeBSD devs, who run something else on their desktop.

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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by loeg on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:31PM (#18660328)

This isn't necessarily a fair characterization of FreeBSD devs, although it's probably pretty close. I'd guess about 50-50 FreeBSD vs Mac users.

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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by xmj on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:59PM (#18661513)

This has noticeably changed in past years. More and more thinkpads, more and more dogfooding

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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by xenadu02 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @02:03AM (#18661917)

I'm guessing this is because macOS pulls from FreeBSD on a semi-regular basis.

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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by umanwizard on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @02:52AM (#18662129)

Maybe they pull some things sometimes but I get the sense their command-line tools in general are just unmaintained and collecting dust. Do you have a citation that they pull regularly?

FWIW:

~ man rm | tail -n1

BSD January 28, 1999 BSD

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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by loeg on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @02:43PM (#18667089)

They pulled at least once, historically, but don't seem to pull on a regular basis. Anyone who wants newer tools than the few they keep updated installs homebrew.

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