FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues

Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by louwrentius on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:42AM (#24857369)

There is nothing to extinghuish, except for the notion of Linux on the desktop, that was never a thing anyway, except for a few technerds.

Microsoft has indeed embraced Linux, in the context of Azure, they are making a ton of money thanks to Linux.

And if people develop for Linux-based platforms, why not give them the tools?

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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by patrec on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:20AM (#24858950)

There is something to extinguish: Apple. Microsoft had a significant problem that all the best (non-game) developers used macOS (and a few even linux), which severely damaged their ecosystem. They fixed that. Apple might be in for a rude awakening in turn when they realize the toys they enjoy selling for exorbitant profits had an ecosystem dependency on the professional products they more or less abandoned.

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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by louwrentius on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:44AM (#24867264)

Yes I agree with that.

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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by znpy on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:05AM (#24858139)

> There is nothing to extinghuish, except for the notion of Linux on the desktop

Thanks you proved my point

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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by protomyth on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:48AM (#24858574)

The ", that was never a thing anyway, except for a few technerds." was a pretty important part of the line you quoted.

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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by znpy on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:52PM (#24860143)

It doesn't matter at all.

Linux on the developers' desktop, that matters.

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