Just as a precursor to this.. I don't consider freebsd an alternative to Devuan partly because of freedom related issues since they're happy to accept binary only drivers there.

That said there is some simplistic value to freebsd, but they are also using dbus where it's not appropriate. I guess that's why you are compiling your own software there. My answer to that is if they declare war on blobs and stop trying to "be like linux" they'll have a fine OS there.

lol @ about the browser taking longer to compile.. I have no doubt you didn't exaggerate this.


​Thanks,

chillfan

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On 14 March 2018 8:07 PM, J. Fahrner <jf@???> wrote:

> Am 2018-03-14 20:50, schrieb Chillfan:
>
> > This is one of the best tear downs of dbus I've seen.
> >
> > The thinking seems to be based purely on trends, e.g "You guys are
> >
> > going with dbus, right? OK let's do that." even if it makes no sense
> >
> > for the use case.
>
> I'm exactly with you! Last year I tried a switch to FreeBSD, because I
>
> was not satisfied with Linux. In german we say "Too many cooks spoil the
>
> broth". That's what I feel with Linux. In FreeBSD you can compile all
>
> packages from source. I was shocked seeing the compilation of a stupid
>
> browser takes a multiple of time than the whole rest of the system! Can
>
> someone explain, why a stupid web browser takes more resources than the
>
> whole kernel and user space of a unix system? Whats going wrong there???
>
> I think we should stop this madness! Back to the roots!
>
> Jochen
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