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By JT Pennington

331: Why Computers Suck

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Published January 02, 2020 7:00am

How learning OpenBSD makes computers suck a little less, How Unix works, FreeBSD 12.1 Runs Well on Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, BSDCan CFP, HardenedBSD Infrastructure Goals, and more.HeadlinesWhy computers suck and how learning from OpenBSD can make them marginally less horrible

How much better could things actually be if we abandoned the enterprise development model?

Next I will compare this enterprise development approach with non-enterprise development - projects such as OpenBSD, which do not hesitate to introduce ABI breaking changes to improve the codebase.

One of the most commonly...

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