FreeBSD has a new C compiler and nuisance comments
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Brian Callahan ☛ 2024-01-01: FreeBSD has a new C compiler: Oracle Developer Studio 12.6
A walkthrough to get Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 to output native binaries for FreeBSD
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Ruben Schade ☛ Blocking someone sending comments
This is a bit Inside Baseball as my American friends would say, but it’s something that happened again that I’m posting about here, rather than responding to the person directly.
Over Christmas I received a long email from someone containing an itemised list of introductory questions about FreeBSD and macOS. It was cordial, though it rubbed me the wrong way for a few reasons:
Half the questions were easily answered from reading a sentence or two from Wikipedia, or doing a web search. I don’t like the blanket advice of read the fscking manual, because we all learn in different ways. But these were very rudimentary.