Today, Beastie took a step down in quality on FreeBSD website. Originally created by the highly talented John Lasseter (Disney and Pixar), it was replaced by flat artwork made by someone without any artistic or design skills or taste. It's like someone who can't code well contributed to the core of the operating system, and everyone applauded. I don't agree with this change 👎

Yes the original artwork is outdated and should be refreshed, but not to degrade it.

#freebsd #beastie #logo

Seven years of running FreeBSD on ThinkPads alongside Linux — lessons I'd give my younger self

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tedyva/seven_years_of_running_freebsd_on_thinkpads/> @Darknessraptor

＂I daily-drive Linux at work and FreeBSD on my personal ThinkPads (T480 & P52 currently). Both laptops and both operating systems, every day. I'm the kind of person who reads freebsd-update output and Phoronix benchmarks in the same hour.

＂Recently saw the "is FreeBSD really that goated" thread and it brought back the timeline of my own journey. Started with a rough —call it version 0.9 — build that barely had X11 working, evolved through five iterations, landed on something I'd call "production-stable personal desktop" around version 2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 with a heavily customized MATE, ZFS boot environments, BastilleBSD jails for microservices, WireGuard tunnels and PF.

＂If I could send a packet back in time to my earlier self, here's what I'd put in the payload: …＂

Postscript: @Darknessraptor (quoted above) has joined Mastodon.

The image here is not his, it's for <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tedyva/comment/om1t5mg/> because we can all agree that em dashes make scintillating conversation.

#goated #X11 #Wales #FreeBSD #BSD #Linux #ZFS #OpenZFS #Beastie #daemon #MyLittlePony #unicorn #dolphin #rainbow #IBM #Lenovo #BastilleBSD #WireGuard #AI #purple

Un petit nouveau est arrivé au bureau : #beastie ! Il vient compléter la galaxie des #elephpants et représenter notre attachement à FreeBSD ❤️

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon

By Beastie – In Gloucester, England

https://streetartutopia.com/2014/11/15/by-beastie-in-gloucester-england/

TIL #Beastie made a cameo in a #FionaApple music video: https://youtu.be/FFOzayDpWoI?t=132

#FreeBSD #WinWithBSD #WinWithBeastie

Did you know there's a quiz about everyone's favourite Unix mascot, Beastie?

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1gnffwu/beastie_quiz_and_marshall_kirk_mckusick_talk/

#unix #bsd #beastie #quiz

OK #FediFriends, time for more #recs pls for #Linux-y stuff… 🙏 (I’m temporarily ruling out #FreeBSD, soz #Beastie fans 👿)

what file manager do you like / prefer / use?

I’m very not-happy with #Nautilus (a.k.a. “Files” 🙄) – I swear it used to be good maybe a decade or two ago but now it feels like a babby’s first file manger with minimal configuration options 😤 (am I thinking of a different old file manger? possibly…? 🤔)

I’ve been toying around with different distros in VMs & find #Dolphin OK enough that I’ve installed it on my actual current-but-soon-to-be-ex #PopOS† install, but it’s from #KDE-land so doesn’t understand #GNOME light / dark mode & consistently blinds me… 🕶️

I’m enjoying #Debian 13 KDE atm, & it seems like it will probably support the old (beast) laptop I’m using for all things Linux

I think I found #Thunar OK when I was playing with an #XFCE install on something recently but really need to revisit it & I’m not sure that it’ll integrate well if I end up running KDE #Wayland rather than… well, XFCE 🤪 (or anything else GNOME-y)

so frens… what do y’all recommend? 👀

pls #boost4reach 🙏
 
 
 
^ FFS, stop naming stuff using actual existing words! you’re not helping anyone! 🤪

† a.k.a. “Pop!_OS” but gosh I loathe the way they styled that distro name 🤮