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Nintendo Switch uses FreeBSD

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The Nintendo Switch is confirmed to be running FreeBSD as it's OS, this is the third console to run FreeBSD as it's main
>PS4 ran off FreeBSD
>Vita ran off of parts of NetBSD and ran off the FreeBSD kernel
>Nintendo switching over to the dark side
UNIX wins again.
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>>59210527
>>/v/
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>>59210527

Allow me to interject for a moment, what you're referring to as "UNIX" is actually UNIX-like. More precisely, since there isn't a UNIX-like kernel (or a UNIX kernel for that matter), what you meant to says was "FreeBSD wins again".
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Freebsd is not Unix.... Lol
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PS3 was probably based on FreeBSD too, included parts from FreeBSD and NetBSD.
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>>59210716
closer to unix than linux
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>>59210527
>UNIX wins again.
corporations win again. ftfy.

this is why gpl is so important and why bsd licensing is just asking for it.
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So when is the dev kit for one of these systems going to be leaked so we can reverse engineer it and release a BSD for PCs that can play hacked versions of the games for these systems?
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>>59210527
wasn't ps3 also freebsd?
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>>59210749
>I have no idea what I'm talking about: The Post
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>>59210799
>I have no argument so I ad hom: the post
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>>59210527
Nobody cares about the fu*k*ng OS

The question is...

have Webkit browser???

inb4: TotallyNotPiracy
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Who fucking cares.
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>>59210826
It has no browser as of yet

>>59210827
I care
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>>59210527
PS3 used FreeBSD too
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>>59210813
>I think the closeness to Unix's original philosophies should be used as a standard to compare operating systems by.

Also, who gives a shit? Go back to >>>/v/ so you can circlejerk with your gaymur friends.
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>>59210527
>no tegra x2
>a57 cores
>lel

Call me for the switch pro tbqh
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>>59210527

Excuse me for being unaware but is the Switch x86?

If it is wouldn't that mean it'd be stupid easy to emulate under a BSD dual boot?
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>>59210941
>nvidia
>x86 licensee
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>>59210836
Well you're a faggot so you don't matter.
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>>59210941
it's ARMv8 (64 bits)
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based BSD
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>>59210952
you seem frustrated
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>>59210527
>Vita
>BSD
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>>59210766
>this is why gpl is so important
>so no one uses your commie software
I see, you want to release shit as free but you don't want people to actually use it. Make total sense u commie faggot
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>>59210967
you seem mentally retarded
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>>59211125
b-but I want my virus-like license to infect all of the goyim and bring down the capitali-

I mean s-software f-freedom is important...
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>>59210527
Can i run lumina DE on it?
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Kek, just because it has the freebsd license written in doesn't mean it's actually freebsd.
All sony systems from the psp had it. Only one was actually freebsd.
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>>59211199
both PS3 and PS4

although speculation of ps2, psp, and vita
hmmm
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>>59211247
>PS2
No OS
>PSP
Custom
>Vita
Custom
>PS3
Also custom. There's also the hypervisor.
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>>59211199
>Free BSD Kernel
I don't know how u interpret "Free BSD Kernel" faggot but for me that leaves clear that it uses freebsd's kernel, can't say about the userland though
also, we are talking about the nintendo switch here, sony was only mentioned
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>>59211273
>No OS
Then wtf is that thing when you boot it up without a game

>companies write custom operating systems instead of borrowing code
lmao

also why does the ps3 use the UFS2 file system?
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>>59211273
>No OS
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>>59210527
but only windows runs games???????????
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>>59210854
>I still have no argument so I will tell him to go to /v/.
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>>59211488
>Disregards argument and skips to banter about going to /v/
Cute.
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COMMIE /g/ FAGGOTS ON SUICIDE WATCH
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>>59211404
>>59211457
firmware
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>>59211404
It's just a simple menu.

>Custom OS
All nintendo system uses custom OS (if it had one)

>>59211289
Portions of it. Like maybe the networking.
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>>59210785
>>59210941
>>59210959
>>59211084

BSD doesn't exist retards, it died decades ago. We are talking about FreeBSD here, which belongs to a family that spawned from BSD. Now stop being autistic and never post again in these threads.
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>>59211273
PS2 ran Redhat Linux modified
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>>59210527
good, time to scour old CVEs and see what works
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>>59211522
Hey I'm an anarchist and I believe the best license is no license, public domain is the true redpill, FreeBSD is a superior OS to Linux (no i'm not a capitalist, i'm an ancom)
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>>59211155
freetards are control freaks
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>>59212332
the best redpill is no software license desu
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>>59212151
Not the stock OS
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>>59212220
>violating the NAP
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>>59212597
the NAP is a spook
read mikhail balunin's works, read marx, read any real critique on capitalism, capitalism is a bad system and anarchist communism is the only form of freedom, also I know ancaps that have turned into literal fascists and it happens to a lot of them
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>>59210716
FreeBSD is actually Unix.
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>>59211708
>All nintendo system uses custom OS (if it had one)
custom OS based off freebsd...
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>>59212777
It may be Unix but is factually not UNIX.
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>>59212799
You mean UNIX™.
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>>59212727

fuck off poofter. capitalism is the only non-coercive system.

communism is coercion. coercion is slavery.
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>>59212727
>marx
You mean the guy who exploited the working class his whole life, and never worked?
The guy who raped his slave tier made denied having her child?
The guy who real socialists hated?
The guy who never stepped inside a factory?
I'm sure he knows so much about capitalism.
>anarcho-communists exist in 2017
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>>59212828
UNIX™ is implied by UNIX.
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>>59212856
slave tier maid*
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>>59210653
you right but kind of short of *nix like threads lately
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why doesn't /g/ have a variant of FreeBSD for us power users?! :)
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>>59212845
it seems you have never ever read a single book on communism and you can't even define communism correctly, the free market needs a government to uphold it's very existance, even John Adams in the book The Wealth of Nations had said this in his book and any austrian economic book has stated you need a government to uphold the system, so to state that the free market system is not coercive is simply to spread lies. Communism is by definition a stateless, classless society with no private property except for personal property, or as marx had described it as bourgeois property. Not everybody wants to live a money based system where there is so much inequality and there are the exploited and exploiters, the rich and poor, life is too short for all of that nonsense, we need to unite and work together insuring everyone works, gets enough food, has equal oppertunity and isn't oppressed, if you are even more interested in this idea please check out Ukranian anarchism which existed without coercion and had respect for both the collective and the individual, communism gets a bad rap because of that retard Stalin (who isn't a communist but rather an authoritarian state socialist quasi cult like figure) please I encourage you to read books on the free market and anarchism and communism, please branch out and see what the movement is before spreading blatant lies
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>>59210746
it was open bsd
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>>59212947
We do.
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>>59212856
The only thing I disagree with in Marx's ideology is that the dictatorship of the proletariat is unneccesary and shouldn't happen, go straight to smashing the state and living peacefully without the evils of inequality and money
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>>59212791
>I know fuck all
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>>59212952

Communism is literally stealing the means of production
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>>59213133
seems pretty obvious from their statement
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BSD license >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GPL
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>>59210527
Yet more proof it's a hobby OS not a serious work environment.
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>>59213405
Back your claims.
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>>59213180
property is theft
the means of production in the hand of a private company for profit alone is exploitation and unjust, thus taking the means of production will benefit humanity for all of us. Please read proudhon, good stuff
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>>59211404
>Then wtf is that thing when you boot it up without a game
The ps2 bios
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>>59210841
Source for this information?
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>>59213405

>use an OS to make billions of dollars
>its just a hobby OS lmao

>use an OS to rice your desktop in your parent's basement
>THIS OS IS FOR A SERIOUS WORK ENVIRONMENT

never change /g/
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>>59212115
>goes on autistic rant
>stop being autistic
?????
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>>59210527
move over gentoo
install FreeBSD
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So will nintendo contribute back to freebsd?
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Video games aren't /g/ related. Shut the fuck up.
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>meanwhile xbox is stuck with Microsoft windows

>xbox power level remains low

BSD THE POWER TO GO EVEN FUTHER BEYOND
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>>59213888
No, barely any corporation does. Fault of the cuck license. At best they'll throw money at a project when there's some huge bug like heartbleed.
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>>59213980
It's not a fault, it's how things should be. BSD licensed software is like releasing it for the world to use and all you ask in return is mere credit. Anything more is definitely appreciated but certainly not required. True freedom.
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>>59213620
>expecting intelligence from /g/
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THANK YOU BASED NINTENDO
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>>59213080
Yeah like the cavemen did! Dying at 29 when your knee gives out while fighting a group of 17 year olds with sharp sticks is the most free thing I can imagine.
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>>59212828

you mean AT&T UNIX™
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>>59210841
I need a quick rundown on BSD and UNIX. If they are so good that consoles can run games, why the fuck can't they run PC games?

Why does BSD and Linux suck ass on PC platform and yet consoles it is delivering 1080p 60fps.
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>>59210688
Any variety of BSD is only forbidden to use the name UNIX because of copyrights. The code does not actually differ from true unix. To all intents and purposes BSD is BSD UNIX. The dispute over the name to the extent that it must call itself UNIX-like is simply because AT&T and Novell refused to grant a licence to FreeBSD due to its use of GPL and Open source software licensing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution
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>>59214657
It's more that it is a super stable operating system that has little inherent overhead.

You can't run PC games on it because they aren't made for it. That's all.
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Why would anyone realistically care beyond minor curiosity?

It's still nonfree and the BSD licence is still a cuck one.
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>>59214657
These operating systems are getting customized for their hardware. Nintendo and Sony develop their own graphics subsystems instead of using X.Org and existing NV/AMD drivers.
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I'm buying one right now!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>59212727
>anarchism
>communism
nice oxymoron
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>>59210527
Who cares? I work for an ERP developing company and we steal MIT code all the time and develop it for years without releasing the source back and make tons of money off it.

GPL prevents against this so we stay away from it. I've seen companies get sued badly for stealing GPL code
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>>59210527
nice to know it will get hacked easier than ever
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>>59215197
>ERP developing company
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>>59214657
I can't back it, but I've heard that memory management in Unix is inherently less suitable for games than the one in Windows and consoles likely change a lot of that just like they have their own graphics systems.
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>>59210826
Nintendo has released code that lets you add a browser to your game (Like Total War: Shogun 2 has), but there's no standalone browser as of yet.

Wait and see.
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>>59215197
> Companies get sued over breaking the licensing terms

That's a good thing.
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>>59210766

>asking for it
Asking for what, that someone uses your software? Is there something inherently wrong with Nintendo using FreeBSD? I mean, granted the Switch is proprietary and locked down as fuck, but that doesn't impact ordinary FreeBSD users.
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>>59211125
What's the point of them using it when you get no benefit from it?

If it was gpl we'd all benefit.
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>>59212220
>public domain is the true redpill
True, only fags are afraid of their precious code being closed by some corporation.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

P.S. Stallman is a subversive kike.
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>>59215845
If it was GPL it just wouldn't be used. At least until we really enter this utopical anarcho-communist world or whatever.
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>>59215892
But Linux is GPL and is being used.
Much more than BSD.
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>>59215197
>ERP developing company
You are not SAP and won't ever be.
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>>59215159
it's by definition stateless, what you have seen were attempts at creating the dictatorship of the proletariat to uphold a state that wither away and become anarcho communist, communism is anarchism, there cannot bbe a government with communism
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>>59215955
Here's a short version as to why:

The BSD license allows people who might have to modify an OS or ship a product to say, an ISP, do so without worrying of GPL violations.

The GPL doesn't stop people from building proprietary products. For example, you've got products based on Linux which don't modify the kernel itself, they just build stuff on top of it. Furthermore, you can build a kernel module for the Linux kernel which is proprietary, and not have to GPL your code.

The reason people use Linux more right now is because the workforce is cheap, Linux often has answers online and you don't really have to think in order to set up anything. You just follow a blog post.

FreeBSD less so, it's not that widely adopted, hence less guides, and often outdated. The price of the admin goes up with that and makes them harder to find.

The reason behind this all comes down to the AT&T lawsuit, because by the time BSD recovered, everyone went off to Linux. This is changing right now, as the systems have a different purpose and goal today. While I do work on FreeBSD, I appreciate some things that Linux did and is doing, and am a firm believer that we need more operating systems, not less. The last thing you want is being locked into a system, free or proprietary. Diversity is good.
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>>59214015
> defendying the freedom of a nigger to fuck your wife
Good cuck.
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>>59218618
>using retarded memes and analogies
Good shitposter, wrong board. >>>/b/
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FreeBSD is used on PS3, PS4 and now Nintendo Switch?
The new world of FreeBSD gaming is upon us!
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Also, hello to all the ##freebsd posters. I see you.
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>>59211169
Steam on FreeBSD? Please explain.
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God bless FreeBSD.

Fuck GNUmale/Lincucks.
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>>59219150
>Truly the OS of nogames
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>>59219329
To quote Balmer: Developers, developers, developers. Guess which other platform had very few games in the beginning.


That's right, every other platform.
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>>59216871
What I wonder is why they just don't use Linux, do they really need to do something to the kernel more than just add blobs for the controllers and what not?
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>>59210527
>>>/v/
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>>59219360
Licensing reasons. Using Linux would require them to make code available upon request, BSD license requires no such thing. That's why Sony uses FreeBSD in PS3 and PS4 too, after learning from Linux in PS2.
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>>59219311
Linux compat layer
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>>59219311
It's probably the Linux version.
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>>59219387
>>59219389
Yep, and Linux 4.10 compat is in HEAD as of last week.
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>>59210527
>Falling for the UNIX meme
What a cuck
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>>59219380
not only that but FreeBSD literally has better performance when it comes to gaming, Linux performance is getting worse and worse as it bloats itself up more and more
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>>59219453

You can thank Android for fucking up the Linux kernel
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>>59219453
I wouldn't know about that, I use FreeBSD as a desktop, workstation and server OS - haven't done any gaming in several years; too fucking old to care.
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>>59219479
It's proven to have better performance with gaming even on the compat layer opposed to native performance, I plan on switching once cargo and wayland is fully ported
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>>59215786
>Nintendo using FreeBSD
>Switch is proprietary and locked down as fuck
>doesn't impact ordinary FreeBSD users
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why choose freebad?

also ia the switch worth it? was gonna get a xbones but idk now
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why should i use freebsd over linux and windows?
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>>59219661
>went to that website
so is prison really as bad as they say or no?
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>>59219737
i just typed freebsd into google and that image came up.

prison = o - - > O
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>>59219782
>prison = o - - > O
o.o
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>>59214671

>f-fuck law and trademarks

You are wrong. UNIX and UNIX-like are not the same thing. BSD is not FreeBSD either. Educate yourself.
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>>59214657
Because

>companies don't spend money on graphics drivers for those platforms

>nobody uses them compared to windows so there's no incentive to make graphics drivers or write/port games to them
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consoles that use freebsd:
-PS3
-PS4
-Switch
consoles that use linux:
-ouya
it really makes me think
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>>59220479
Netcraft confirms it
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>>59213980
That's where you're wrong.
Companies who use BSD contribute back to the freebsd foundation either with cash or with code: see NetApp, Juniper, Qlogic, Apple, Netflix, and Sony just to cite a few.
I'm not saying all of them do but most of them, usually the bigger ones, do.
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>>59210527
That's cool, but still no native GTA V or Zelda for FreeBSD, so running their kernel means literally nothing for FreeBSD users aside some laughable proud on being cucked again.
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>>59210527
FreeBSD is not UNIX because:

1, UNIX (in caps) is trademarked and, original UNIX being dead as a door nail, only made available for use by systems that pass the Single UNIX System certification.

2, FreeBSD does not contain any original Research UNIX or System V code, as per the settlement of the AT&T v. BSDi lawsuit.

As much as I like FreeBSD, these are the facts. It's still Unix, though.
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>>59221591
you could very well make a console that runs the linux kernel with some shit on top that makes the games proprietary, you know that right
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>>59216871
Why the fuck would an ISP worry about GPL when their product technically not released? Have you ever heard fusionsphere or microsoft's linux router os? Thanks for the FUD, but i has enough in the past.
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>>59221616
Nintendon't except for their meme famiclone.
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>>59219360
because no one wants to fucking deal with the GPL

the FSF is just a lawyer organization, which is funny considering stallman seems so profoundly anti-lawyer
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>>59221461
That's barely any.
Compared to the contributions to an OS like Linux it doesn't even register.
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>>59219523
The compat layer isn't some kind of emulation or virtualization, it's simply implimenting Linux syscalls in a way that translates them into FreeBSD syscalls - which essentially means it's doing things as fast as FreeBSD does everything else. Whether that's faster than Linux I don't know.

>>59220429
FreeBSD and NetBSD both descend directly from Net/2 and 386BSD (the free variant of Net/2 which AT&T sued BSDi/State of California, the case that they subsequently lost).
FreeBSD can, therefore, trace it's commit history continuously all the way back to the very first version of UNIX written in PDP-7 Assembly on June 30th, 1970: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo

Meanwhile, Linux doesn't have a commit history worth mentioning because Linus didn't believe in version control for the longest time.

>>59221596
That's why both FreeBSD and Linux are UNIX-likes. Not all of Net/2 BSD was propriatary when the propriatary bits were removed and 386 was made, and while the free bits have since been removed, there is a continuous commit history all the way back. See my link in the previous part of this post.

>>59216871
The actual reason why Linux is more popular than FreeBSD is two-fold: 1) because of the first-mover bonus, Linux got a lot more developers attached early on - Linus himself admits that if he'd heard about BSD while working on MINIX, he might not have started working on Linux. 2) Linux has SUSE and Redhat, companies which offer commercial support for Linux, and which big corporations can sue if something goes wrong. They can't sue the FreeBSD foundation if something goes wrong, but that doesn't mean FreeBSD isn't widely deployed: It used to be used at Yahoo (but was replaced with Linux, and then Yahoo got owned hard. Coincidence?), and still runs the majority of the internets mail servers.

>>59221661
Juniper uses FreeBSD in JunOS, and their routers and switches are used in plenty of tier1 SPs and IXs.
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>>59221804
>the case that they subsequently lost
IIRC it ended in out-of-court settlement. That being said, there was a huge probability of AT&T getting wrecked if the case continued, as it was found it was them who violated a lot more BSD-licensed code.

>That's why both FreeBSD and Linux are UNIX-likes.
Inspur K-UX is a Chinese commercial RHEL-based Linux distro that is actually SUS-certified and is therefore UNIX. Ironically, Linux is more UNIX than FreeBSD these days.

>and then Yahoo got owned hard. Coincidence?
That was due to incredibly shitty security practices at Yahoo. FreeBSD would have gotten own just as hard, had it been still installed. Nice try at blaming Linux, you FagBSD.

I don't see anything glaringly wrong with the rest of the post.
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>>59221804
>Juniper uses FreeBSD
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>>59221982
OpenBSD is more Unix than Linux will ever be
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>>59221982
>BSD licensed code
Settling out of court was still a loss for them, case in point: AT&T isn't even in the OS business anymore.

>Inspur K-UX
It's passed the Single Unix Certification which technically means that it's certified to be compatible with UNIX, not that it _is_ UNIX.
The same holds true for EulerOS, Huaweis ARM server OS, as well as Mac OSX and now macOS.

>>59221982
>Security
Sure, which is why I'm glad it wasn't FreeBSD - but if you were to compare past exploits of the FreeBSD base system and the most popular Linux distribution (most popular because FreeBSD is the most popular of the BSDs, distribution because its the closest that Linux has to a FreeBSDs base system), FreeBSD does have less exploits - although it can be argued that that's partially because Linux' install base is larger than FreeBSDs.

>>59222056
That's not what I said. I said Juniper based JunOS on FreeBSD (just like Apple based (part of) Mac OSX, and (more of) iOS, on FreeBSD).

>>59222223
Missed that GET by a hair.
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>>59222300
UNIX is the trademark, Unix is the OS family. If something is UNIX certified, it _is_ UNIX. Doesn't make it Unix though.
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>>59222223
But nobody cares. The date is euro-friendly though, but in general it's a timesink OS if you won't contribute.

>>59222300
>That's not what I said.

Your answer not related to GPL usage on ISP either.
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>>59210527
Apple computers have been running an actual Unix for almost 10 years.
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>>59222379
Haha, no they haven't. Darwin is not UNIX, not by a long shot.
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>>59222397
https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3627.htm
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>>59222339
Pretty much install -> git clone my patches for various tools -> make install -> done
Takes 20min and I have a fully functional system without any configuration past setting ddb.panic to 0 and lidsuspend to 0
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>>59222436
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>>59222325
I fucked up the capitalization, mea culpa.

>>59222339
I mentioned it because you said something about ISPs and I work for a tier1 SP which uses Juniper throughout our entire core, distribution and edge.
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>>59222223
Aside of OpenBSD being the focal point of all security-related autism on this planet, that's entirely down to personal preference of what Unix actually is. Arguably, Plan9 was both "not Unix" and "more Unix than UNIX".

>>59222300
>not that it _is_ UNIX
True. The only not-dead systems that still incorporate original System V code are AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris.
That being said, two Linux distros have the certification, which, in my opinion, makes Linux a little bit more UNIX than FreeBSD.

>AT&T isn't even in the OS business anymore
And that's for the best, if you ask me. Their stupidity at marketing UNIX nearly killed the whole Unix industry.

>>59222325
>Doesn't make it Unix though.
Also true. z/OS is SUS certified, but is pretty much the opposite of Unix.
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It's very simple.
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My Switch shows up as Nintendo Nokia in my network
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>>59222595
>more UNIX
More compatible with a +40 year old OS. Good benchmark there, bud. This explains why every DE looks like they're trying to do what Sun did over a decade ago with CDE.

>Plan9
Plan9 had some insane concepts which everyone else is just getting around to doing now, like distributed filesystems, treating everything as an actual file, 100% unicode, booting to rio and probably some stuff I'm forgetting.
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>>59222433
They shelled out the cash, big fucking deal, still not UNIX.
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>>59213080
>I'll just draw him kinda dumb while he states basic facts and offer no retort

Epic comic my dude.
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>>59222737
CDE was a collaboration between HP, Sun, IBM, and USL, and is, in fact, primarily descended from HP's VUE. Contrary to a popular Berkeley belief, Sun is not the sole repository of wisdom and good things.
As for the state of Unix desktop, BSDs have all the same desktops as Linux does. It's not like you can magically invent a new desktop paradigm that is both different from what came before and solves all use cases.

The way I understand it, some parts of Plan9 got merged into various Unices. Linux, for example, implemented a bit of the "everything is an actual file" metaphor in the /proc and /sys hierarchies.
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>>59222981
openbsd also had /proc at some point but it was super unstable so they removed it
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>>59223011
Well, the Linux /proc is fine, so I don't know what OpenBSD did wrong.
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>>59223049
sysctl does it's job
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>>59223076
I like the virtual filesystem approach more, since it's easier to work with and the sysctl syscall requires bindings on anything that's not C.
It doesn't really matter unless you are performance-bound, though.
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Why should I care about an OS that doesn't even map drives as letters
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>>59212151
that's a debug station
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>>59212777
show me the certificate
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>>59222716
>literally WHO OSs
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>>59223918
The only modern Unices in existence.
macOS is rather well-known, don't you think?
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>>59222379
>>59222397
They've been running Unix for over 15 years and have been UNIX certified for the last ~10 years

>>59222773
Quit acting like UNIX is just something you throw money at. It's an extensive set of standards that your OS needs to comply to. If you pay for the certification and it does comply with the standard, then it is UNIX, and that's the bottom line.

>>59223851
No such thing for Unix, you're thinking of UNIX.
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>>59222339
I'm the guy who posted the thing related to ISPs. I was referring to Netflix CDNs. The BSD license allows them to ship the CDN to an ISP and not worry that the ISP will get the FSF lawyers on their door for a product they didn't build
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>>59219596

>Download regular FreeBSD on some machine other than a Switch
>Not locked down
>Use as normal
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>>59210527
Everybody's cucking BSD.
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>>59215786
it's inherently wrong

but if they were using linux and they were forcing devs to include some kind of proprietary library that wouldn't be wrong
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>>59210826
>>59210836
>>59215697
You can trigger the web browser by going into the the setting and trying to configure your social media settings, it'll launch a Facebook page.

Redirect Facebook on the router to any other domain and you can point the switch browser anywhere.

And its WebKit.

So a proper browser has to be coming.
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>>59210527
>companies use FreeBSD
>they tell FreeBSD developers to fix these problems
>FreeBSD developers do it for free
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ca u run a desktop environment on it?
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>>59222223
>>59222222
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