Legitimate question for all you lovely BSD-folks. Does anyone daily CDE nowadays?

#freebsd #openbsd #cde

AI models don’t really 'get' the BSDs. As a result, they often provide incomplete, imprecise, or flat-out wrong answers by defaulting to Linux paradigms. When it comes to illumos-based systems, they just completely lose the plot.

This is becoming a serious issue for the BSDs and illumos ecosystems. We are seeing entire websites flooded with AI-generated tutorials and guides that are totally incorrect. Most people don't realize this; they follow the instructions, fail, and then assume that the BSDs doesn't work well or are 'unstable' because they have supposedly changed since the guide was written.

Luckily, some people eventually find my blog, reach out, and finally understand what's actually going on. Others, unfortunately, end up on major social sites or comments, claiming that these systems are broken.

In 2026, one of our greatest challenges will be teaching people how to vet their sources and filter information.
And I see this as a very, very uphill battle.

#IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #News #UnderstandingText #Disinformation

Use #Yggdrasil for DNS and NTP if you use #OpenBSD, it will save your ass
later.

@johndoe99077

Aficionados will remember /vmunix for #Unix with demand paged virtual memory.

To this day, the #OpenBSD and #NetBSD kernels likewise live in single files in the root directory.

https://man.netbsd.org/boot.8#FILES

@me_ @flexion

https://www.openbsd.org/78.html