2026-04-18 06:05 UTC
@Zzyzx here is what I can say from my own POV, having been to EuroBSDCon in Paris back then, been using FreeBSD on a few servers for a decade now, and regularly attending bsd.nrw: There are definitely many, many really nice people there, and yes, you will find some jerks, pretty much like everywhere else. I've accepted that to be part of life and stick with the people I do enjoy being with. Joanna has a similar position on these matters, from what she writes:
https://blog.invisiblethings.org/about/
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@CyReVolt@mastodon.social 2026-04-18 06:12
@Zzyzx BSDs are in some regards very retro. I have been very mad a good bunch of times about the lack of a declarative services supervisor along the lines of systemd, and people often said to me in return that they want to stick with their shell scripts for various reasons. Some aspects of the kernels are quite fancy, at least. Can't speak for NetBSD though. The system upgrade process in FreeBSD is quite bizarre and confusing, the base system separate from packages, but that is being worked on.