5 Reasons To Use FreeBSD Instead Of Linux!

Here's 5 reasons you may want to try out FreeBSD, especially if you're unsatisfied with your Linux distro or Windows, and want to try something different.

Certainly there are more than 5 reasons, another that I though of while rendering the video was the ZFS file system. I'd love to see your comments, let me know how you feel about FreeBSD!

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[FastGadgets]

I turned off automatic mid roll ads. YouTube has 4 mid roll ads in a14 minute video!! Hopefully it will take effect soon.

[donaldduck]

My advantages are ZFS, jails (iocage) and bhyve (vm-bhyve). And extreme good performance. You can run all your Linux, Windows or whatever server in VMs. You can isolate specific tasks into jails (samba, dlna or whatever). Most important, you can replace your drives within redundant ZFS pools. A single hard drive isn't that 'important' any more. You can secure yourself using snapshots. The time I've spend with FreeBSD was worth it. You can build a whole infrastructure in one server and back that up easily with snapshots being sent to another FreeBSD server. This is pure reliability. I'm using FreeBSD over 14 years now.

[ArtoPekkanen]

The main reason I use FreeBSD on some setups is the more concise userland tools and interfaces. And of course, extremely good documentation. Even if you don't know FreeBSD, it is really easy to learn to use it.

[mograms]

I hope you recover 100% soon! Stay well my dude and thank you for the video.

[aaronjameshorne]

One of the main reasons for me falling in love with FreeBSD is the documentation and the port system. These two things for makes feel I am a user of an operating system

[mmjackk]

I really hope you get well soon! The video was very interesting and covered all the major issues. A good place to start if you're thinking of moving to BSD. (move, you won't regret it)

[djpcradock]

Use the right tool for the job! I use Windows for gaming, FreeBSD for NAS boxes, Linux and BSD for fun playing with an operating system.
Thanks for doing this video.

[rwashi]

Yeah, excellent exposé. I started using SCO Xenix 286 in the day, that was my first in counter with the multi-user multi tasking OS. then 2 years after we upgraded to SCO Unix 386. Those were the days.

[baileyharrison]

The 'openness' of the BSD license allowed Intel to use the Minix OS to power their Intel Management Engine, without giving the developer any credit or recognition. The developer basically made the most widespread spyware found in every CPU for free.

[CyBeRTRoNFLuX]

since my surgery, i have had a problem remembering words. its been over 2 years now and it has not gotten better. so i know what you are going thru

[Alicia-kdvv]

THank you for this video, Ive been wanting to try out BSD, and im gonna take a dive in the documentation

[guydurand]

I have tried FreeBSD but have preferred and used NetBSD to a much greater extent. I like that it runs on so many different architectures (I have used it on an old Thinkpad with a P100 CPU and PowerPC macs with great success and it was great.)

[yuriykazmirchuk]

Thank you for the video, Mark. Wish you 100% recovery, you can do it.

[daviousmaximus]

FreeBSD will always be in my heart. It saved me back in the bad old days of production when Linux was still having memory problems and let's not even talk about Windows servers.

[IGDNews]

Bsd's are derived directly from Unix. Linux is a Unix like Kernal that diverages from the Unix philosophy.

[laRh]

Thankyou for this very calm composed and comprehensive video.
Btw a Fedora user here and it's good.
although I've plans for installing and using Free BSD as VM

[geraldcragg]

Yes, I've never ran BSD before and would be very interested to learn 👍

[derekgoodwine]

I really love both. I run Arch and FreeBSD on both a VM and real hardware. The FreeBSD manual definitely is my Unix like manual. I mean I use it for troubleshooting issues on Linux and BSD. I like both Arch and FreeBSD forums but still I believe BSD forum is better organized. I was able to install FreeBSD on netbook, Asus eee PC (2011) with Xorg, Slim, Xfce and believe me it runs very well. That was impressive and I was shocked. I don't see them like alternatives actually I firmly believe the are complementary in order to to get a comprehensive taste of Unix world! I recommend both!

[ProgressiveTory]

FreeBSD is the best alternative for Linux.

[TheDukeOfZill]

The rise of FreeBSD is upon us. Everything that gets developed for the various Linux distros (table scraps) ends up on FreeBSD's dinner plate. It is growing immensely. Make way for the beast!