@BoxyBSD was always for BSD based systems only. I focussed to push the whole BSD community and to encourage people to try BSD based systems (such like #FreeBSD. #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, etc.) but I'm not sure if it might provide more value to the whole #opensource community by also supporting #Linux systems (such like #Debian, #Ubuntu, #RockyLinux, #SuSe and more).

I'm not sure if the #BoxyBSD project still provides a value for the community right, now.

What do you think?

I'm going to compile the NetBSD kernel directly on the Raspberry Pi Zero W, which is running NetBSD.

Let's wait and see 🙂

BY THE WAY

Did you know that #NetBSD #m68k can compile itself from scratch?

How long would you imagine it might take to compile NetBSD 10 from source on real m68k hardware? Earlier this year I wanted to find out, so I set up a Macintosh to try it.

The toolchain, OS and installation sets started on 16-March and finished on 10-May:

build.sh started:    Sat Mar 16 17:04:20 UTC 2024
build.sh ended:      Fri May 10 00:35:54 UTC 2024
4692724.22 real   3810544.56 user    700310.18 sys

That’s 1303 and a half hours, or almost eight weeks, or 54 days.

Installing the OS using build.sh took another four hours (4:08:39).

The kernel took another almost 21 hours (20:55).

That’s a lot of time, but it worked without issues, and the system runs happily!

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/