The focus of the general public remains around Linux, so it's exciting to see so much progress on the BSD front. No need for a religious war, I'm happy to see both projects maturing as they are.
It was a nice surprise to see that a RISC-V port is in a semi-working state. I didn't expect anybody to bother with that until next year at the earliest since the supervisor mode spec is still a draft, but I guess commits are cheap.
Quite interesting to see JdeBP's nosh integration for FreeBSD notable enough to be mentioned. Does this signify there is interest for getting it into base? It would certainly be miles ahead over choosing launchd.
"Core fielded an enquiry about NextBSD and whether this should be the future direction for the whole FreeBSD project. Core's position is that NextBSD is an interesting project, and we regard it, like the other BSD projects, as a potential source of good ideas. However, we currently have no plans to adopt NextBSD as the official FreeBSD distribution."
I don't see launchd coming to FreeBSD anytime soon.
Everytime I read about ZFS all I can think about is how awesome and improbable it would be for Oracle to change the license on both ZFS and Dtrace so it can just get shipped in mainline linux.
Yes but without a change to the license itll never go into the kernel. While that might make not change things operationally for some people, not having it ship with the source means itll always be a second-class citizen.
Again, that's from rosy GPL glasses. At worst, ZoL would be forever one or two kernel releases behind (and is basically reality now), which means very little to production users running LTS distros.
