Johannes Silverfox @ johannes_silverfox @pawb.social

Turns out I'm a silver fox ^^ Married dad of 2, 40s, bisexual, works in IT,

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That would be an interesting timeline where open source BSD variants have all the hardware support and mindshare while Linux is an obscure project in the vein of Plan 9 or GNU Hurd..no idea how that would have played out.

FreeBSD and NetBSD were first released in 93, but I didn't hear about them until later. I don't think I would have been knowledgeable enough to install/use them back then, either.

I hadn't done any serious work with FreeBSD until earlier this year, when I set up my blog site on it. I wrote an article about that experience at https://jsilverfox.blog/post/freebsd/

The site is running well, I..just need to write more articles for it, eheh.

I vaguely remember Yggdrasil Linux, but I never ran it as it wasn't freely available and I was saving my money for Super Nintendo games, hehe. Slackware was free, though it took a long time to download over a 2400 (maybe 14.4) modem onto a stack of floppies, all while hoping that nothing got corrupted.

Then, the actual installation was quite a learning experience but I managed (somehow, far too long ago to remember exactly how) to get it running. Didn't have a graphics card for XFree86, but having multiple ttys/multitasking available after using DOS for so long felt extraordinary. ^^

I’ve been using Linux for..not quite 30 years, but getting there, and I’ve been a Linux sysadmin for over 20. I started on Slackware, ran that for about 15 years, went to Fedora, ran that for 12 or so, and I’ve been on Arch since.

So yeah, I know some things ^^

From what I’ve heard and seen (watching along with my daughter), it’s not great. Not terrible or unwatchable, just kind of..there.

You’re usually aware you’re watching a toy commercial as the stories are not all that compelling or interesting. The characters are fun (mostly), but the scripts are usually phoned in, everything is predictable..any of the magic of G4 is long gone, which is unfortunate.