FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop

Re:FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving... by jcoder on Sunday May 24, 2026 @01:16PM (#48259131)

I'll never understand why people think this looks human:

  What Made This Time Different
  This time, I didn't just install FreeBSD.
  I created a system for learning and success.

  Clear goal: FreeBSD as my daily driver
  Daily habit: 10 minutes minimum
  Accountability: post the journey on Linkedin

Gee, why not let the agent try FreeBSD for you and do the posting directly

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Re:FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving... by 866-RON-0-FEZ on Sunday May 24, 2026 @01:26PM (#48259230)

> This time, I didn't just install FreeBSD

Well, rms has never installed Linux so that's a step forward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQL37AC_YM

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Re:FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving... by tosti on Sunday May 24, 2026 @01:34PM (#48259291)

Linux isn't his thing. But he also didn't install GNU.

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Re:FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving... by 866-RON-0-FEZ on Sunday May 24, 2026 @01:35PM (#48259312)

It's a funny video but his stance is quite principled, as he refuses to use any non-free software even if it's horribly inconvenient. Which is the exact opposite of what we have here.

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Re:FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving... by tosti on Sunday May 24, 2026 @03:12PM (#48260138)

That's because if you trade freedom for convenience, you'll end up having neither.

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Re:FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving... by sunshine-o on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:29AM (#48264020)

Because those type of people are actually some type of narcissist powerpoint bots. Only interested in their "journey" and putting that next to a picture (of herself probably) climbing a mountain.

Here is what should worry everybody who care about FreeBSD and the "foundation", it seems it is being run into the ground [0]

> The board has said the deficit spending is intentional. They are drawing on reserves to invest more in the project, which makes sense in principle. > But at roughly the 2024 burn rate, the reserve fund might last about 4 to 5 years.

> One thing that caught my attention is that the EU Cyber Resilience Act starts in September 2026, and the Foundation already has six workstreams running to prepare for it. That kind of work costs money, and right now a lot of it seems to be funded from the same reserves that are shrinking.

This is also why you are hearing thing like FreeBSD "is investing in laptop support" or a KDE installer.

But this is not what is gonna "save" FreeBSD. People get interested and choose FreeBSD because it a great server OS, because of the ZFS support, jails, PF, stability and the coherent system overall.

They would do more for adoption by just making sure most VPS hosting services have it as an option along Linux than wasting infinite money on supporting "laptops".

See also [1], people are getting tired of that level of hypocrisy and waste of money.

- [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rq0ucy/ive_been_g...

- [1] https://unixdigest.com/articles/hypocrisy-and-politics-in-fr...

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Re:FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving... by sph on Monday May 25, 2026 @06:50AM (#48265416)

> Because those type of people are actually some type of narcissist powerpoint bots

We call these senior management.

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