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    I'm not an openbsd user myself, but always use some of their patches for my personal distro. (lemmy.world)
    submitted 11 hours ago by maduncle@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    I'm not an openbsd user myself, but always use some of their patches for my personal distro.

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    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

    Do you have a distro that only you use? 🀯

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    BSD is past its prime

    [–] klu9@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

    Netcraft now confirms: BSD is dying.

    [–] swab148@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

    You're right, all the cool kids are on 9front these days

    [–] demunted@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

    Isn't macos a fork of BSD? Do they contribe back to the mainline?

    Edit TIL:

    https://thenewstack.io/apples-open-source-roots-the-bsd-heritage-behind-macos-and-ios/

    [–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    What's the deal with libreSSL at this point, it seems like a few distros added it then removed it a few years later, now you don't hear about it much.

    [–] maduncle@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

    For me, I just use it because I feel different.

    [–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

    OpenSSL has a terrible codebase and development completely stalled for a while as it basically went to shit.

    LibreSSL forked during the end of that period, but it didn't quite get enough traction, and the demand for it went down, while openssl also a critical dependency for so many things.

    Honestly OpenSSL just stole enough from LibreSSL to sort itself out a bit, and not enough people switched, plus all the new algorithms are written by academic or big corp crypto guys who throw it over the wall into OpenSSL as the default place everything gets used.

    Also OpenSSL is certified which means any critical application has to use it.