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echo7394last Sunday at 9:57 PM4 repliesview on HN

Why choose Free/OpenBSD instead of Debian, CentOS, or any other distro?


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laxdyesterday at 12:15 AM

For FreeBSD, given that it fulfills the tasks required:

* Ease of management - more holistically designed.

* Rock solid parts that fits together - more holistically designed.

* ZFS, jails, bhyve, dtrace, ports.

* If it works today, it works tomorrow.

* A more approachable community (which AMD says is the reason why they are developing for FreeBSD before Linux now).

* Transparency and simplicity of how it works - if you can understand it, you can manage it and fix it.

* Documentation.

* Fun! Linux is not fun.

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toast0yesterday at 2:29 AM

Less churn -> the OS respects the time you invest in learning the system, and the time people have invested in documenting the system.

shartsyesterday at 12:25 PM

One is a full cohesive OS. The other is just a kernel with all the other bits packaged together by other groups of people.

And it shows.

efortislast Sunday at 11:57 PM

What do you use Linux for?