It’s a shame that so much taxpayer money is flowing to US multinationals.
To save money, the solution IS NOT austerity
https://psacunion.ca/psac-statement-upcoming-federal-austerity-budget
To save money, get rid of waste.
Every province, every government department, should get rid of Microsoft and Adobe.
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Yes and try out a BSD, folks! Choices (in no particular order):
So why choose BSD over Linux as an open source operating system to run on your computer? Because BSDs feel much more cohesive as operating systems! Every Linux distribution I’ve ever used had the feeling that it was still sort of a cobbled-together patchwork of software with a package manager and repository to maintain it.
BSDs, on the other hand, feel like they’ve been designed as a unified whole by a group of people whose goal is to build an operating system. With this comes better organization and documentation. BSDs also include software projects that are written specifically for the operating system.
If you try a BSD and start to like it, you may want to check out BSDCan, North America’s Largest BSD Conference. This year’s conference already took place in mid-June but all of the talks have been posted to the BSDCan YouTube Channel.
Lastly I want to say that if you’re very comfortable with Linux as your daily driver OS but still potentially interested in BSD, you can always give it a try on a spare computer. All of the above BSDs (except DragonFly) will run on a Raspberry Pi, for example.
I’ve tried it as a deskop and while I did get everything going it kinda felt like staying in an Airbnb. Everything looked nice and all the appliances matched but there were kinda blank areas where the owner didn’t know what to put there so they just painted it white. But that’s use as a desktop.
I ran a pfSense machine for a while and poking around in FreeBSD felt like a very coherent setup, not at all like the patchworkness of Linux. Guess I’m gonna have to set up a few VMs.
Tried which as a desktop? FreeBSD is mainly used for servers. I think OpenBSD gets used a lot more for daily driving on laptops (by the dev team for instance) and so may be more polished.
I tried OpenBSD with GNOME (because I am a Debian + GNOME guy). I suspect a lot of the shortcomings I ran into were GNOME related because, well you know.
Also, IIRC,some of the lead dev team for FreeBSD are (or were at one point) Canadians.
Edit: I was thinking of OpenBSD, not FreeBSD. See the reply below for more correct information.
Theo de Raadt, founder and lead developer of OpenBSD, lives in Canada.
Thank you, that’s who I was thinking of.
It has been a while since I spent a lot of time in BSD land.
Me too actually. But it will always remain near and dear to my heart.
You were right, though. You used to see a lot of a certain @istar.ca address in the FreeBSD tech tips
fortune(6)file.