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Let's get a BSD thread going. Are you using BSD on any of your machines and why did you choose it over linux? I installed FreeBSD on my thinkpad last night and it seems to work well, but what can I do with this that I cannot do on linux? So far the only interesting feature I've found is ZFS. Don't get me wrong, it feels almost like linux and the pkg-package manager is nice and fast. I guess I might as well keep using this as my OS on my laptop, but I fail to see any benefits when compared to linux. Maybe if you like jails more than VM's and containers, then that's one interesting feature for sure because AFAIK jails can be way more secure than containers. Oh and the IceWM package seems to be nicely themed for FreeBSD, so points for that too, overall packages feel more precisely tailored than on most linux distros.
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>>107832539
cuck license
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>>107832539
pufferfish wit da big ass lip
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>>107832708
I chose FreeBSD arbitrarily, is OpenBased better?
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>>107832539
pape?
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>>107832616
>all made possibly my Cuck License cuckery.
Right
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>>107832616
Wow what an absolute cuck
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>>107832735
>Openbsd
Its core focus is on security and correctness.
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>>107832735
It depends on what you value personally

FreeBSD has better performance (comparable to Linux), better hw and sw support, more devs

On the other hand, openbsd is smaller, easier to manage top to bottom, supposedly better code quality, and strong focus on security which translate in "less features" (eg no Bluetooth)

If I had to make it short, FreeBSD is an industry grade BSD trying to compete with Linux on servers but as with Linux, but it also works well as a desktop operating system. Openbsd is a bsd OS focusing on *practical* security research but also thought to be used as a desktop os by its devs

Also philosophically, FreeBSD is like Linux in the sense that their kernel are meant to support customization and experimentation while openbsd discourage customization of the kernel although you can obviously do it if you know what you are doing
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dead os general
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>>107834620
Cheers, sounds like it's right down my alley then, FreeBSD that is. Currently pretty much everything except audio works, I followed https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/multimedia/ but can't get the audio to play through speakers or headphones even though everything should be setup as should.



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