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Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD's strategic move toward broader adoption (freebsdfoundation.org)
15 points by grahamjperrin 12 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


What's great is the rest of the BSDs will integrate improvements.

Investment in the BSDs is goodness.


I installed FreeBSD on my old laptop a few days ago. With WiFi, desktop and everything. Pretty much everything worked except for HDMI-connected monitor. And my Linux is not listed in boot menu.


They took an investment from a new startup (Quantum Leap Research) focused on national security.


In the press release, the CEO of Quantum Leap Research, Jim Miller, said: “Quantum Leap Research believes FreeBSD is an excellent choice to serve as the foundation for a new secure computing initiative given its long history of security and stability,” said Jim Miller, President of Quantum Leap Research. "Quantum Leap plans to run FreeBSD on contemporary laptops as a hypervisor-like solution using Bhyve to virtualize other operating systems, including Linux and Windows."

https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/9234109/quan...


> Quantum Leap plans to run FreeBSD on contemporary laptops as a hypervisor-like solution using Bhyve to virtualize other operating systems, including Linux and Windows.

Are they gonna sell laptops running FreeBSD with a virtualized Windows guest as "more secure" to the US government?




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