Why I Love freeBSD

freeBSD

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I've only skimmed this nice post.
Thorough reading will follow later

Some highlights which resonate with me *as flageolets on a string instrument* are captured here in screenshots I've made on an Android

  • Many tools still work exactly as they did (decades ago)

  • The feeBSD handbook taught me an enormous ammount, more than many of my University courses, including things that had nothing to do with freeBSD specifically

  • This is vital

  • The handbook taught me the right approach

    understand first, act second

This is a principle I use since I've been a peuter (NL).

  • Analyze what occured
  • understand why it occured
  • find out under what circumstances it can occur
  • close or limit those conditions
  • fix the problem by repairing, cooling, modifying the break
  • analyse the proposed fix before implementing
  • Only replace when all other methods fail or repair is more expensive than replacement

Sources

it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16

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