Posted on by Justin Sherrill
In Other BSDs for 2018/03/17

The first news item about pfSense is not necessarily new, but new to me.

10 Replies to “In Other BSDs for 2018/03/17”

  1. Justin

    There is a broken link for the next major release of pfsense

  3. Here’s an interesting reddit comment from one of Justin’s links above.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonflybsd/comments/82xbz4/comment/dvfqs52

    Paraphrase: Dragonfly has ~200 monthly code commits. OpenBSD has ~1,000 monthly code commits. So OpenBSD is 5x more active than Dragonfly.

    Now obviously counting the number of code commits is a flawed metric and not all code commits are created equally. But at a macro / directionally indication – it’s a fairly good comparison.

    I really wish more people used and spoke about Dragonfly. It’s so great.

    Because when I read comments like:

    “
    [Dragonfly] is what they describe it to be — a research project. It’s at a stage where all users should be expected to take part in the development and the project seems to need user/developers who want to work on documentation and ports.
    “

    Just pains me to read that :(

  4. Maybe it’s Qubes OS, even if Mr. Lucas is calling it in a way that seem to advertize a cloud service or something.

    And I’ve heard that we -have options- because someone is thinking to port OpenRC over.
    What?

  5. Fixed the link – I don’t know why they don’t have a top-level link there. Changed the PDF mention too.

    TJ – what is wrong with those comments? Put it another way: Windows has lots of users and tons of activity. Why aren’t you using it?

  6. @justin

    Reading something referred to as a “research os” doesn’t sound positive.

  8. In my book, “Research OS” means a plaything not fit for production.
    There is a marketing failure at play here.

  9. I can’t fix your feelings for you, and neither can an operating system.

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