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Re: Re: FreeBSD?
By: Atroxi to Chickenhead on Wed Aug 26 2020 04:15 pm

Chickenhead wrote to All <=-

So...anyone using FreeBSD here?

I've actually started running FreeBSD on my laptop for quite some time now.

I'm

astounded at how compatible my stuff are to it and I have had less than 10

issues

migrating my workflow to it. I wish FreeBSD had good Steam support so that I

can

wholly jump ship to it. But as it stands right now, I have to keep my

desktop runni

Linux on the off-chance that someone invites me to play a casual game every

once in

blue moon.

But other than that, I'm liking how FreeBSD handles things. It might sound

overly

cliche but all their talk about stuff being clean and easy to understand is

true. I

don't consider myself a technical expert on lower level stuff but the way

they wrot

their handbook and their system manpages are just awesome and really

approachable.

used to say that I learned a lot about my computer using Linux as compared

to using

Windows but now I can say that I learned a lot more about computers using

FreeBSD t

using Linux.

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FreeBSD is nice. It feels a lot like a BSD-licensed Linux at times, though. When I want a BSD experience I usually end up running OpenBSD,
but that is a different beast. If you run that one, expect to do some software porting if you want to make the most out of it :-)

I'm curious, how come is it a "BSD-licensed linux"? Yeah, OpenBSD is this thing in the back of my head that I wanted to try out just for the sheer novelty of it but I don't know if it will fit my usecase. But we'll see.

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Re: Re: FreeBSD?
By: Atroxi to Arelor on Thu Sep 10 2020 02:33 pm

FreeBSD is nice. It feels a lot like a BSD-licensed Linux at times, though. When I want a BSD experience I usually end up running OpenBSD, but that is a different beast. If you run that one, expect to do some software porting if you want to make the most out of it :-)

I'm curious, how come is it a "BSD-licensed linux"? Yeah, OpenBSD is this th in the back of my head that I wanted to try out just for the sheer novelty o it but I don't know if it will fit my usecase. But we'll see.

It is hard to point at the cause, but when I did things with FreeBSD I was thinking "this reminds me so much of Linux" all the way. Probably the abstraction layers it has installed by default.

OpenBSD feels a lot like its own thing. They have this bsd_auth going on, unveil(), this thing with users that belong to specific loging classes, and this chroot+privilege drop combo for lots of daemons. NetBSD feels very unique too, in a different way, which is interesting because OpenBSD comes from NetBSD.

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Chickenhead wrote to All <=-

So...anyone using FreeBSD here?

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