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The State of BSD At the Start of 2013

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-alive-still-alive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NetBSD developer Julian Djamil Fagir provides a nice briefing on what the big three BSD projects have been working on, and explains/reminds us of their cultural differences. Stick a fork in them? Yes, Djamil Fagir mentions a couple of those, too. The recent releases from FreeBSD and NetBSD were covered by Slashdot."

4 of 91 comments (clear)

  1. OSX is doing great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Oh, he forgot that one.

  2. BSD kernel running in your BROWSER!? by X0563511 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is insanely cool...

    Seriously.

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  3. FreeBSD KMS & Co. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think it's also worth noting that FreeBSD' support for moder GPUs is finally improving:

    -nvidia closed-source driver works (as always)
    -Intel works https://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU
    -AMD porting has started https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU

  4. Truecrypt - Closed source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The article states "TrueCrypt, a disk encryption tool, though being Closed Source, gained a wide distribution among computers due to its ease of use and cross-platform compatibility." I think this is misleading as the source code is licensed under a custom license but it is open source (depending on what one means by open source). It's not a BSD or GPL license, but the code is open and one is allowed to modify it and distribute binaries and source of the modified version. It has to be renamed and there are some other restrictions, but to call it closed source is misleading.