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Who here uses an OS in the BSD family? - I Like Gold - 08-02-2017
Tell me what operating system you use in the BSD family. I use FreeBSD right now, and am browsing Sinister.ly with FreeBSD. I brag about this because it took me a long time to set it up which led me to depression and this depression caused me to commit suicide almost, but I came through my troubles and pushed through my limits and finally managed to setup my FreeBSD operating system with no errors. My depression quickly started to settle, and I started hanging out with friends more and never told them about my FreeBSD because I'd sound like a nerd and nobody really likes nerds. However, after all that, here I am today, with a modern, stable, well-setup FreeBSD system.
RE: Who here uses an OS in the BSD family? - miqrojamie - 08-05-2017
I'm not sure if it counts but I use MacOS Sierra and might consider running TrueOS in a virtual machine to see what it is like, MacOS is primarily composed of BSD-licenced content IIRC and it conforms to Unix standards...
RE: Who here uses an OS in the BSD family? - I Like Gold - 08-06-2017
(08-05-2017, 09:10 PM)miqrojamie Wrote: I'm not sure if it counts but I use MacOS Sierra and might consider running TrueOS in a virtual machine to see what it is like, MacOS is primarily composed of BSD-licenced content IIRC and it conforms to Unix standards...
Mac OS is a piece of shit made by Apple and does not deserve to be denoted as a part of the BSD family.
RE: Who here uses an OS in the BSD family? - Blink - 08-06-2017
(08-06-2017, 05:35 AM)I Like Gold Wrote:(08-05-2017, 09:10 PM)miqrojamie Wrote: I'm not sure if it counts but I use MacOS Sierra and might consider running TrueOS in a virtual machine to see what it is like, MacOS is primarily composed of BSD-licenced content IIRC and it conforms to Unix standards...
Mac OS is a piece of shit made by Apple and does not deserve to be denoted as a part of the BSD family.
You've obviously never tried it.
It works just as well as any OS, especially if you are used to using a terminal.
It has multiple command-line package managers, it can compile and run most command-line BSD and Linux programs, and it uses BASH by default, (I'm actually using ZSH on a mac right now) just like other *nix OS.
Like some BSDs, but unlike Linux, Mac OSX is FULLY POSIX COMPLIANT!
Linux is close, but not entirely compliant.
At first we all have our OS prejudices, but please seriously try an OS before shitting on it.
@miqrojamie Most of it is closed source, I wish it was BSD-licensed.
RE: Who here uses an OS in the BSD family? - I Like Gold - 08-06-2017
(08-06-2017, 06:01 AM)Ender Wrote:(08-06-2017, 05:35 AM)I Like Gold Wrote:(08-05-2017, 09:10 PM)miqrojamie Wrote: I'm not sure if it counts but I use MacOS Sierra and might consider running TrueOS in a virtual machine to see what it is like, MacOS is primarily composed of BSD-licenced content IIRC and it conforms to Unix standards...
Mac OS is a piece of shit made by Apple and does not deserve to be denoted as a part of the BSD family.
You've obviously never tried it.
It works just as well as any OS, especially if you are used to using a terminal.
It has multiple command-line package managers, it can compile and run most command-line BSD and Linux programs, and it uses BASH by default, (I'm actually using ZSH on a mac right now) just like other *nix OS.
Like some BSDs, but unlike Linux, Mac OSX is FULLY POSIX COMPLIANT!
Linux is close, but not entirely compliant.
At first we all have our OS prejudices, but please seriously try an OS before shitting on it.
@miqrojamie Most of it is closed source, I wish it was BSD-licensed.
I have tried Mac OS X before. It sucks, it's not as customizable as other BSDs, and it's closed source.
RE: Who here uses an OS in the BSD family? - Blink - 08-06-2017
(08-06-2017, 06:18 AM)I Like Gold Wrote:(08-06-2017, 06:01 AM)Ender Wrote:(08-06-2017, 05:35 AM)I Like Gold Wrote: Mac OS is a piece of shit made by Apple and does not deserve to be denoted as a part of the BSD family.
You've obviously never tried it.
It works just as well as any OS, especially if you are used to using a terminal.
It has multiple command-line package managers, it can compile and run most command-line BSD and Linux programs, and it uses BASH by default, (I'm actually using ZSH on a mac right now) just like other *nix OS.
Like some BSDs, but unlike Linux, Mac OSX is FULLY POSIX COMPLIANT!
Linux is close, but not entirely compliant.
At first we all have our OS prejudices, but please seriously try an OS before shitting on it.
@miqrojamie Most of it is closed source, I wish it was BSD-licensed.
I have tried Mac OS X before. It sucks, it's not as customizable as other BSDs, and it's closed source.
1. GUI customizability is not very important. I can go for days (maybe weeks) without GUI.
2. It's just as customizable in the command line.
3. Customization right here:
Spoiler: images
You can do tiling on Mac:
![[Image: X28gtJP.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/X28gtJP.jpg)
![[Image: qxbb684zo8sy.png]](https://i.redd.it/qxbb684zo8sy.png)
This is also mac: (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/61qr8h/os_xgruvboxpowerline_the_mac_os_rice_youve_been/)
![[Image: aBsj7B3.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/aBsj7B3.jpg)
This is too:
![[Image: ATG19MW.png]](https://i.imgur.com/ATG19MW.png)
And this:
![[Image: screenshotone.png]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apierz/nerdbar.widget/master/screens/screenshotone.png)
This is sad, but still mac:
![[Image: nsqOPDv.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/nsqOPDv.jpg)
This is my current setup:
![[Image: Ynm2D0u.png]](https://i.imgur.com/Ynm2D0u.png)
This is also mac: (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/61qr8h/os_xgruvboxpowerline_the_mac_os_rice_youve_been/)
This is too:
And this:
This is sad, but still mac:
This is my current setup:
The 3rd and 4th reach the same levels you can reach in many *nix tiling window managers.
RE: Who here uses an OS in the BSD family? - DarkMuse - 08-06-2017
(08-06-2017, 06:28 AM)Ender Wrote:(08-06-2017, 06:18 AM)I Like Gold Wrote:(08-06-2017, 06:01 AM)Ender Wrote: You've obviously never tried it.
It works just as well as any OS, especially if you are used to using a terminal.
It has multiple command-line package managers, it can compile and run most command-line BSD and Linux programs, and it uses BASH by default, (I'm actually using ZSH on a mac right now) just like other *nix OS.
Like some BSDs, but unlike Linux, Mac OSX is FULLY POSIX COMPLIANT!
Linux is close, but not entirely compliant.
At first we all have our OS prejudices, but please seriously try an OS before shitting on it.
@miqrojamie Most of it is closed source, I wish it was BSD-licensed.
I have tried Mac OS X before. It sucks, it's not as customizable as other BSDs, and it's closed source.
1. GUI customizability is not very important. I can go for days (maybe weeks) without GUI.
2. It's just as customizable in the command line.
3. Customization right here:
Spoiler: images
You can do tiling on Mac:
This is also mac: (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/61qr8h/os_xgruvboxpowerline_the_mac_os_rice_youve_been/)
This is too:
And this:
This is sad, but still mac:
This is my current setup:
The 3rd and 4th reach the same levels you can reach in many *nix tiling window managers.
That's really cool but I'm dumb af lol. UBUNTU FOR LYFEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
*drinks bleach*
*dual boots Ubuntu with TempleOS*
RE: Who here uses an OS in the BSD family? - BurritoBeans - 08-06-2017
(08-02-2017, 07:42 AM)I Like Gold Wrote: I'd sound like a nerd
Speaking of sounding like a nerd, the one BSD that I'm used to is RISC iX, a variant of 4.3BSD for the Acorn UNIX workstations and Archimedes - while I don't usually run RISC iX on my Archimedes, I do use it a good bit on my R140 and R260 workstations. You may ask why the hell this even matters, and that's because I run a UNIX-based PDP-11/73 for... reasons.
It's a nice OS, what can I say? It operates quite smoothly - compared to the AT&T workstations and their general PITA of a system that they are, it's nice anyways. For the time of its release, one bonus is that it's a multitasking OS - you can work with all of your standard UNIX tools, a Sun NFS, an ANSI C development platform, and it all runs on the good 'ol X Window system without a hassle of interrupting something to play with something else. Speaking of all that stuff, the in-built tools run smoothly, but if you want to get around and customize then they make it quite easy to do as you can customize to your hearts extent. (That is if you have a copy of the OS, it's really simple to screw up and back in the day it would cost £1000 for a new installation if you didn't.) Past that, underneath the fancy covers, it's good 'ol UNIX - I can't complain.
Now saying that, would I consider running a modern version of BSD based off of that? Not exactly... well, I take that back, the closest I'll get is MacOS on the Hackintosh. While I'm by no means much of a fan of Macs hardware-wise, I will admit that OS-wise they're solid from what I've messed with - they will do everything that somebody wants without too much trouble, you can screw with it a good bit of you know what you're doing, and it just works. I've looked into the other options as a coworker runs FreeBSD on his machine at work, but I don't think I'll be messing with that in the near future.