@phen314 could you ELI5 for me? I don't even get it!
I hope this FreeBSD Foundation effort bears sweet ripe fruit: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/why-laptop-support-why-now-freebsds-strategic-move-toward-broader-adoption/ (I want a supported FreeBSD Laptop! EVEN IF IT IS A DELL)
@jutty oh, I'll add another area to gain support for, and it should actually be pretty easy. E and P cores!
@jutty hmm.. I tend to go for the larger and more well known (and expensive) brangs; Lenovo, Dell, HP, etc. So definitely gong to be a bias there towards more standard parts (like I have an em wired ethernet and an iwlwifi on this.. pretty stock chips).
I could see an issue getting a rando laptop from walmart or off of amazon.
@jutty ah, neat. I run freebsd on my daily driver laptop. It actually works pretty well. Wifi works, graphics works, audio, etc.
Power management even.. sometimes works!
In terms of things I think are most valuable; thunnderbolt, and the more advanced power management things (like suspend to disk). Other than that it is just to get things supported SOONER (as in sooner to tech being released)
@jutty wait... what? deets?
@lattera well, that is pretty obnoxious; I don't even have those files on a checkout, so I cannot even build by default now; I wonder if my tree even "works" with this merge now
@stefano saw you gave a presentation at eurobsdcon. And on a topic that is close and passionate to me (data ownership).
Didn’t realize how influential you were in the community; definitely honored that I got your followback! 🙂
The #FreeBSD DevSummit stream can be viewed at:
Last talk today: @stefano making important points about why to use BSD on the server.
#EuroBSDCon2024
@lattera wow.. that is a lot of updates
Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686,400 in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization – @FreeBSDFoundation
<https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/freebsd>
「Improving the infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience of an open source operating system」
@LilahTovMoon I would say it also implies the existence if ViQueens (which sounds pretty cool!) and EmaKings (and respectfully I'd suggest changing the spelling to EmaQueens).. which also sounds pretty cool!
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