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This week on BSDNow, we have some big breaking news about another major switcher to FreeBSD, plus early information about the pending This episode was brought to you by Headlines Leo Laporte tries FreeBSD (http://www.leolaporte.com/blog/a-grand-experiment) Leo Laporte, formerly of TechTV, and now of TWiT.tv, is switching to FreeBSD “The latest debacle over the "forced" upgrade to Windows 10 and Apple's increasingly locked-in ecosystem has got me thinking. Do I really need to use a proprietary operating system to get work done? And while I'm at it, do I need to use commercial cloud services to store my data?” A sometimes Linux user since the mid 90s, Leo talks about his motivations: “But as time went by, even Ubuntu began to seem too commercial to me” “So now for the grand experiment. Is it possible, I wonder, to do everything I need to do on an even more venerable, more robust system: a true UNIX OS, FreeBSD? Here are my requirements” Browsing Email with PGP signing and encryption Coding - I'm a hobbyist pro