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by bladerunner82 3754 days ago
Very cool, very interesting. Regarding systemd, we here in the BSD camp welcome you. :) No such issue like systemd with its binary nonsense in FreeBSD or OpenBSD. And, one config file (plain text) to rule them all in /etc/rc.conf
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Regarding systemd I really want to move to bsd. But the last time I tried dragonfly bsd I had way too much trouble setting up brightness for my laptop monitor. Felt like the old days of Linux. But I'm keen on giving it another shot.
Try OpenBSD. OpenBSD has the best laptop support of the BSDs. Dragonfly BSD offers nothing that Free- or OpenBSD doesn't IMHO. OpenBSD supports tons of chipsets, suspend, sound, wireless, you name it. Costs you nothing to try. I was sold after trying it all those years ago. It's better than ever now, and gets better every iteration. OpenBSD arguably also has the best man pages in the industry. Theo de Raadt and his devs really do care about the software they put out. Their code audits are legendary and it shows in the build quality of their OS and other products.
I did hear about OpenBSD having good support for the Broadwell series. I will give it a shot. Way too many binary files to deal with in Linux. I cannot bear that logs are now binary.
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