Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:16:30 -0700 From: Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: David Cross <dcrosstech@gmail.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM) Message-ID: <ff0c26cbe5a7162468fc22af84a5f4dd@bsdforge.com> In-Reply-To: <159D15FA-6235-484C-A54A-565E3CDEA690@gmail.com> References: <202409031532.483FW0If007252@critter.freebsd.dk> <159D15FA-6235-484C-A54A-565E3CDEA690@gmail.com>
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On 2024-09-03 12:36, David Cross wrote: >> On Sep 3, 2024, at 11:32 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >> >> What is FreeBSD ? >> ----------------- >> >> Forget Rust for the moment, I promise I will come back to it. >> >> FreeBSD as a project was created almost entirely as protest against >> the incompetent "UNIX-industry" as it existed around 1990. ... >> >> This distribution format is neither more nor less perfect with >> respect to reproducible builds and "Reflections on trusting trust" >> than what we have today. >> >> And yes, we have ports written in Rust, why do you ask? >> >> Poul-Henning >> >> PS: I overdosed on release work 25+ years ago, and have not been >> paying them much attention since, but if this is what the pkgbase >> crew has been pushing for more than a decade, we all owe them an >> apology. > > As a quick note I constantly build freebsd from source. I do it for all of > my > systems for all updates, all patch releases. > > I may be an outlier here, ... You're definitely not. I build world/kernel for the multitude of servers (and home equipment). For the servers, I only need to do it once (per hardware profile). Where I then simply make images and pour it onto the boot/storage media. In my opinion, the most attractive feature of the BSD's are that there are so darned many options. There is no one-size-fits-all for anything, and the fact that FreeBSD provides so many options to make/install/add/subtract/... provides a near perfect match that tailors to anyone's needs. --Chris
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