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   Solène :flan_hacker: (solene@bsd.network)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:41:52 JST Solène :flan_hacker:

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   • Mark Delany
   • Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺

   @Tubsta @NewtonMark @markd I count 251 known active Linux distributions https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=Linux&category=All&origin=All&basedon=All&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=All&status=Active#simpleresults

   (I guess a bunch of them are not active for real)

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     Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 (tubsta@soc.feditime.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 00:41:53 JST Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺

     • Mark Delany
     @NewtonMark @markd We use #OpenBSD on a significant scale. It is used within Australia by others as well, there are many talks at the various #BSD conferences.
     
     Yes, it could be a rounding error compared to FreeBSD but there are use cases, especially around features that FreeBSD doesn't carry in the network stack.
     
     FreeBSD network stack is probably the best there is in any OS (moving around 400Gb/s of encrypted traffic) but it is lacking a lot of other features that are needed in some use cases.
     
     Then you have the Linux shit show that has 1000 distributions that do almost the same thing, but not.