With Linux getting sloppy, what really are the good BSD systems? Is DragonflyBSD any good? GhostBSD? Our old friend NetBSD?
Like, I want to run something on a seven year old former gaming laptop with two 1 TB hard disks: one SSD, one NVMe; 16 GB of RAM; and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050i Mobile
.
Hell, I'm even considering putting Haiku on it.
Linus said, "Fork it!"
After taking the money.
I'd rather flush it.
#BSD #GhostBSD #DragonflyBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS
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