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S!ayer | 2 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +2 
 who here is 100% linux?

and then what distro?
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shadow06 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Gentoo
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S!ayer | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 is that a distro or gender?
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shadow06 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Both
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DeAllen Young | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Debian/devuan
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Livestradamus | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Linux: Slackware 
BSD: OpenBSD
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S!ayer | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 BSD?
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Livestradamus | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It’s a less popular cousin of Linux.
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S!ayer | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 interesting, and why?
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Livestradamus | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 OpenBSD because it’s sane and secure by default. Doesn’t allow binary blob hw drivers. Has a small dev team and small code base. It’s pioneered some of the best tools used every where today, openssh for one.
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S!ayer | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 nice to know, will check it out.  I'm assuming its use case specific and not general purpose OS?
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Livestradamus | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I’d be using devuan if I couldn’t slack anymore
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AbstractEquilibrium | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 NixOS & Qubes
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S!ayer | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 what the hell?
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AbstractEquilibrium | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 NixOS is like if docker compose transitioned as a linux distro, and qubes is in case I want snowden kind of security isolation. 🤣
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Sushi | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nixos and Proxmox. Playing with BSD tho