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According to repology.org, FreeBSD is the 4th largest package repository in the open-source world.

Teenage Engineering gear is not meant to last. It is an illusion created by how their product looks like and how it is marketed. Once the warranty expires, you won't be able to repair products like TX-6. I've gotten bitten by that myself. TE does not really provide much support to its users to help them maintain and repair this expensive gear.

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414236

Hyperfine is a really nice tool for this kind of benchmarking.

The defaults are absolutely sane. I've been using FreeBSD with root on ZFS on all sorts of workstations and laptops for many years now. It's always run just fine, even on cheap laptops with 2 GB of RAM.

It probably helps that OpenDTrace has a published specification that you can use to not only to reimplement bits of DTrace from scratch but also to agree on a common behavior across many operating systems: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-924.pdf

It's pretty cool to see it forked off the OpenDTrace repository on GitHub.

This may not be the answer you are looking for, but OccamBSD seems to be a way to produce a minimal image for use in FreeBSD jails, FreeBSD bhyve and Xen: https://github.com/michaeldexter/occambsd

Those are not part of the base system.

There is an interesting comment to this article on Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/moflv5/freebsd_audio_from_perspective_ha...

The commit message does not mention any MFC timeline [1] so this feature is not planned to be merged back into existing stable branches. In other words, the first release with this feature is going to be FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE.

[1]: Also, you may look for the commit hash (a40cf4175c90142442d0c6515f6c83956336699) at https://mfc.kernelnomicon.org/ to see the back-porting status.

FreeBSD has recently switched from DocBook to AsciiDoc for its documentation: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/fdp-primer/asciidoctor-pri...

Markdown was also an option but it was missing too many features for a documentation set of this size.

It's incredible how fast the whole transition is happening. I'm really grateful to the Libera Chat team for creating a space for the communities to move to. Amazing job!

There is also Modernish, which is a library for writing portable shell scripts and it seems to support all kinds of different versions of shells across a variety of operating systems. It really takes care of all the quirks and bugs every platform has.

https://github.com/modernish/modernish