Post #1436111
2026-03-25 23:15 UTC
@ramsey @Npars01 @iaruffell @ammdias It is an academic tradition dating back to 4.2BSD and earlier at UC Berkeley CSRG. I followed the Berkeley way, ended up living and working there in 2004-05, I ended up being Sam Leffler and Bill Fenner's protege by choice, but I put the work in, scored my ICSI staff fellowship, then I aimed for the multicast code bounty for which Apple took the code, that got me into St Andrews on Cisco URP for PhD with a middling 1st degree. Other than that I'm self made...
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@bms48@mastodon.social 2026-03-25 23:26
@ramsey @Npars01 @iaruffell @ammdias The age verification question for FreeBSD is tricky though. Traditionally it has been a server OS, so arguably excluded, but there is a strong initiative at the #FreeBSDFoundation to drive more desktop use. I am using Ubuntu at the moment but it actually lags behind FreeBSD on KDE support. I use it mainly so I can use netlab from ipspace.net (which I've yet to start with in anger) and NVidia CUDA compute support for the onboard RTX 500. That may change...