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.
>>107832539cuck license
>>107832539pufferfish wit da big ass lip
>>107832708I chose FreeBSD arbitrarily, is OpenBased better?
>>107832539pape?
>>107832616>all made possibly my Cuck License cuckery.Right
>>107832616Wow what an absolute cuck
>>107832735>OpenbsdIts core focus is on security and correctness.
>>107832735It depends on what you value personallyFreeBSD 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 devsAlso 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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>>107834620Cheers, 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.
Yeah I installed sndio and enabled sndiod, sndiod is loaded, audio drivers are loaded, default audio device is set, mixer shows appropriate volume level is set but no matter what I cannot get any sound out of this system. I also set librewolf to use sndio as the audio backend.
I’m running web servers and a mail server on FreeBSD and it’s great. Upgrades are a breeze. Jails are easy to work with once you get the hang of networking with them. Pf is easy to configure. ZFS is great. Filesystem hierarcy is an improvement over GNU/Linux. Performance is great. Documentation is great.The single biggest thing is lack of surprises and at least feels less bloated compared to GNU/Linux.>>107834620OpenBSD on desktop doesn’t seem so appealing to me but it looks as a sexy alternative for servers despite the worse performance. My small scale bizniz shit probably won’t have any noticeable difference though.
>>107832616I think OpenBSD is a cool system, wish Linux had an equivalent like that other than maybe Whonix. It's a shame they used such a terrible license though.>>107832735If you're running it on desktop, other than ZFS and some incremental improvements, I don't understand why you'd pick FreeBSD over Linux with its tiny userbase. It just seems like a contrarian os. OpenBSD has something Linux isn't as intensely focused on, which is security and correctness.>Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!
>>107836306Not just Whonix, I meant Qubes. Oops.
>>107832539yes, but im developing a distro.
>>107836306>If you're running it on desktop, other than ZFS and some incremental improvements, I don't understand why you'd pick FreeBSD over Linux with its tiny userbaseIf for some reason you've needed to use a Unix command line for work before, isn't FreeBSD closer to it than Linux? Minor things like vi vs vim and tar vs gtar, but that is enough to make some people want to use FreeBSD over Linux, especially if they're used to Unix
