Subj : Re: FreeBSD?
To   : Atroxi
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Sep 11 2020 05:57 pm

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

>  Ar> FreeBSD is nice. It feels a lot like a BSD-licensed Linux at times,
>  Ar> though. When I want a BSD experience I usually end up running OpenBSD,
>  Ar> but that is a different beast. If you run that one, expect to do some
>  Ar> 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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