I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went, Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets, The first perfect computer, Find Name Wildcard Gotcha, and more
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I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went (https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-freebsd-as-a-desktop-heres-how-it-went/)
Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets (http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20Performance%20Comparisons%20With%20Home%20Computers%20Phones%20and%20Tablets.htm)
News Roundup
State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250222.html)
The first perfect computer (https://celso.io/posts/2025/01/26/the-first-perfect-computer/)
Find Name Wildcard Gotcha (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FindNameWildcardGotcha)
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