[talk] possible meeting topic: FreeBSD desktop stuff with a side of DJ-BSD redux

[jpb]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:38:03 +0100
Tara Stella <tara at tara.sh> wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> My name is Tara and I hope you'll accept a newbie geek girl from the
> other side of the pond in this list. Long story short, the reason I
> joined this list is because I quit all social media (including
> Mastodon) and I was searching for a community about FreeBSD reachable
> in a different way.
> 
> > As perhaps some here assembled may know, I've been working on adding
> > COBOL to gcc for the last, oh, 4 years.    
> 
> Believe it or not, I'm learning COBOL now. I am not a developer, I
> consider myself more of a sysadmin, but I love the idea of having a
> language that spans from old MVS 3.8j to more modern systems including
> FreeBSD and Linux, that is stable and don't require fancy dependencies
> and, last but not least, produces small binaries. I plan to use COBOL
> to replace some little personal tools.
> 
> 
> I would love to learn more about it. At the moment I'm using GnuCOBOL
> on both Linux and FreeBSD. I'm far from an expert, and this is mostly
> out of curiosity, are you targeting a specific COBOL standard?
> 
> > I look forward to making FreeBSD part of that story.   
> 
> I don't know if I can be of help, but I would be happy to contribute
> in the way I can (ex: I helped testing the podman port to FreeBSD
> with the developer). My interests are also ARM/RISC-V, networking and
> enterprise computing. 
> 
> I'm also keen to know more about FreeBSD in general, hope you won't
> mind if I stay here and learn.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tara

Welcome!

NYCBug is a great bunch of folks with a wide variety of BSD interests.

You can also find us on libera.chat on the #nycbug channel.

Enjoy,
Jim B.