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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by PrimeMcFly on Friday August 25, 2023 @11:22PM (#37269683)
> Can you name any production-quality / daily-driver linux distros that have used the same network config, init, logging, etc for the last 5 years, let alone the last 3 decades (like the BSDs have)?

Are you not so subtly referring to the systemd fiasco? That was about, if not over 10 years ago. I also don't think it matters. Change is not a bad thing, and that change is not as hectic or constant as you seem to imply.

If you really want a Linux distro that hasn't changed at all in the past 30 years, Slackware might be your bets bet, but I don't think that 'having not changed in the past 30 years' really makes sense as a metric.

Personally, I'm a fan of Alpine and Void Linux, and I also run NetBSD. FreeBSD seems too 'messy' as someone that likes minimalism, and OpenBSD's security focus is misplaced IMO.

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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by hedora on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:16AM (#37283470)
It’s not just systemd. Wayland broke the world. ifconfig doesn’t work anymore. File permissions don’t reliably work thanks to acls. There’s also the selinux vs cgroups vs ???, etc, etc.
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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by PrimeMcFly on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:26AM (#37283578)
ifconfig got replaced just as OpenBSD's pf replaced whatever it replaced.

Wayland, ACLs, SELinux and cgroup are all just options, none are forced.

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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by throwaway7356 on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:53AM (#37290278)
> ifconfig

Was deprecated ~20 years ago. Not a recent change.

> selinux vs cgroups vs ???

This doesn't make any sense? It's like writing "network drivers vs. X11" in OpenBSD.

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