Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)

On 2024-09-03 12:36, David Cross wrote:
>> On Sep 3, 2024, at 11:32 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> What is FreeBSD ?
>> -----------------
>> 
>> Forget Rust for the moment, I promise I will come back to it.
>> 
>> FreeBSD as a project was created almost entirely as protest against
>> the incompetent "UNIX-industry" as it existed around 1990.
...
>> 
>> This distribution format is neither more nor less perfect with
>> respect to reproducible builds and "Reflections on trusting trust"
>> than what we have today.
>> 
>> And yes, we have ports written in Rust, why do you ask?
>> 
>> Poul-Henning
>> 
>> PS: I overdosed on release work 25+ years ago, and have not been
>> paying them much attention since, but if this is what the pkgbase
>> crew has been pushing for more than a decade, we all owe them an
>> apology.
> 
> As a quick note I constantly build freebsd from source. I do it for all of 
> my
> systems for all updates, all patch releases.
> 
> I may be an outlier here, ...
You're definitely not. I build world/kernel for the multitude of servers (and 
home
equipment). For the servers, I only need to do it once (per hardware 
profile). Where I
then simply make images and pour it onto the boot/storage media.

In my opinion, the most attractive feature of the BSD's are that there are so 
darned
many options. There is no one-size-fits-all for anything, and the fact that 
FreeBSD
provides so many options to make/install/add/subtract/... provides a near 
perfect match
that tailors to anyone's needs.

--Chris