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FreeBSD 15 is out! You can read the release notes here! I put the ones that sounded juicy to me. For my simple home use. The adduser(8) utility, used by bsdinstall(8), will now create a ZFS dataset for a new user’s home directory if the parent directory resides on a ZFS dataset. A command-line option is available to disable use of a separate dataset. ZFS encryption is also available. 516009ce8d38 The jail(8) command now supports the zfs.dataset parameter to attach a list of ZFS datasets to a jail. e0dfe185cbca ...

It’s been years since I’ve tried a new Linux distribution! 🐧 I had an old laptop laying around so what could it hurt right? You can read the about it. Software Source Compiler and runtime stack LLVM C standard library Musl with mimalloc Core userland FreeBSD Init and services Dinit + custom tooling Audio stack PipeWire Desktop environment GNOME ##AMAZING I stole that list right from the site. I’ve only ran musl on Gentoo and Void before. I’ve always been interested in that. It’s always fun to try out new init systems too! As of writing this I’ve used it quite a bit. I was worried about having to mostly just use flatpaks. The only downside I found was lack of nvidia GPU support. No worries this is the ONLY machine with a nvidia GPU that I have! I was not trying to play video games or render anything so it did not matter to me. ...