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andrewfyesterday at 2:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

Starting with FreeBSD might be easier than starting with Debian then removing all the GNUisms. But perhaps not as much Type II fun.


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tssvayesterday at 3:05 PM

Using Linux gets you much more hardware compatibility especially for the consumer desktop and laptop systems this is targeted towards.

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dvdkonyesterday at 7:20 PM

I think Linux is the better choice for replacing the entire userland. From what I've seen, the BSDs don't have such an accessible userspace/kernelspace split. With some effort, on Linux you could probably just run an exe as your init.