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In light of all the #Linux drama lately, I thought I'd glance at what are the #FreeBSD equivalents to the various software I use.

Well, the network configuration story is very not good. You know how Linux has NetworkManager? On FreeBSD, if you want to configure network interfaces by GUI, you…run a GUI app as root via sudo.

https://github.com/ghostbsd/networkmgr/blob/324b90ce3775928692032f1f6cef9ed5ee097962/src/networkmgr.desktop

Which then shells out to sysrc to apply configuration settings:

https://github.com/ghostbsd/networkmgr/blob/324b90ce3775928692032f1f6cef9ed5ee097962/NetworkMgr/configuration.py#L611

You've got to be kidding me. That all's insecure as hell.
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Nazo · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9zsljfx8tjyzplququr9xmqctclx0qc2mw5xydzx0udqzrfade4qmtrtl5 I feel like you may want to take a look at Gentoo. I'm not going to say it's immune to any of this, but even the things that might get in there at least you can better bypass since it g...
Graham Perrin · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9zsljfx8tjyzplququr9xmqctclx0qc2mw5xydzx0udqzrfade4qmtrtl5 "… the #Linux drama …" Do you mean AI?