@FreeBSDFoundation
I've started investigating #FreeBSD at (maybe) since 2.1.6 in conjunction with several other OS'es including #BeOS, #WinNT4, #超漢字(kinda proprietary package of #BTRON with huge font set) with several #Linux distros (Yggdrasil, Vine and Turbo as far as I can recall now). At the era, my personal daily driver was #OS/2.

After IBM discontinued OS/2 and the successor, eComStation, didn't actually released Japanese edition (ordered one and obtained English version for temporary use until it's ready, but never happened), I needed to decide which OS to make my NeXT^H^H^H^Hnext daily driver, and switched to FreeBSD, which seemed to be most familiar with me.

I've used several GPUs for XFree86 (and Xorg after it landed) on FreeBSD.
At first, VGA/SVGA driver was too slow, so I purchased a license of AcceleratedX to use S3 GPUs (and then, Power9000, Matrox MGA,...) and some ATIs(!).
When I've switched my daily driver hardware to notebooks, driver for new GPUs were mostly unavailable after AcceleratedX has gone.

But fortunately, found that NVIDIA is providing FreeBSD version of drivers for their cutting edge GPUs and ports were already available. After that, I choose PCs having NVIDIA GPUs everytime I need to purchase one.

I was happy for a while, but introduction of iGPUs caused headaches. There were too many screams that graphics/drm-*-kmod at their early phase was quite unstable and often broken. So I've always been looking for notebooks that can disable iGPU via BIOS / UEFI, but it became harder and harder.
Now I'm using Minisforum MS-01 that allows installing half size, half height PCIeX16 card which doesn't require additional power supply with RTX A400.

And noticed that I'm now one of the maintainers for #NVIDIA driver #ports on FreeBSD.

Today, latest Production Branch of NVIDIA GPU drivers 595.84 landed onto ports tree at commit ec6b356f6328.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=ec6b356f63289da87c9fbb52cdf558805383caf6

x11/nvidia-driver, x11/nvidia-kmod, x11/linux-nvidia-libs, graphics/nvidia-drm*-kmod, x11/nvidia-settings, x11/nvidia-xconfig: Update to 595.84 - ports - FreeBSD ports tree

#BTRON だけにETです (は?)

@justine
I was mainly using OS/2 until its EoL (on IBM).
In the period, I've tried several OS'es. #FreeBSD (since 2.x), #BeOS, #Linux (Yggdrasil, Vine, and maybe Turbo), #超漢字 (an proprietary implementation of #BTRON) and WinNT.
When OS/2 by IBM was EoL'ed, I needed to decide which OS to move on.
At the moment, BeOS and 超漢字 already (actually) stopped upgrading (Now Haiku is available as a successor of BeOS), so both are dropped, although both had implessive performance.
And I disliked the configuration styles of Linux distros and WinNT, so FreeBSD won the race for me.

And I prefer X over Wayland at least for now. AFAIK, there is no usable (for me) magnifier like one #compiz Mag plugin. So I stopped investigating Wayland, maybe until compiz 8.x series and #Mate DE supports it.

Chokanji 5, a BTRON specifications OS running on VirtualBox.

Appliance download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/bszdhj0wcm1vwkt/Chokanji.ova.7z/file

#Chokanji #BTRON #Retrocomputing #VMappliance

Chokanji.ova

MediaFire

A screenshot of Chokanji, a BTRON specifications OS in English.

#Chokanji #BTRON #TRON

Chokanji, a BTRON specifications OS which runs on PC hardware.

Pictures of laptops running Chokanji:

#Chokanji #BTRON #TRON #Retrocomputing