👿 BSD is SO much better than Linux! But ...

No really.

#linux #unix #bsd

[XShentoX]

PlayStation operating system is a modified version of FreeBSD

[xbmarx]

I worked for an Erlang shop that was all FreeBSD.
FreeBSD uses kqueue for IO multiplexing and is (or was at the time) much more efficient than anything Linux supported (epoll). It was kind of amazing that Erlang handled IO so well that the OS itself became the bottleneck!

[awa]

The chaos and tribalism of Linux is tiring though. BSD can be a really nice escape from all that.

[garanceadrosehn]

Hmm. Checking the source repository, FreeBSD had 'mkdir -p' back in version 2.0.5, which was released in 1995.
And I'm pretty sure it had the option before that. Just when was the last time you "checked out FreeBSD"?

[DV-mlfm]

Linux is more usable as a desktop. It supports more hardware and web browsers plugins.

[ahettinger]

"Nobody uses it" someone should tell the BSD jails call regulars. Bhyve is also quite nice.

While it's going to depend on your BSD, all of your complaints about "not being POSIX" is actually places that it's _following_ POSIX (and just not true).

All of the niceties of VIM are not required by POSIX (although vim is available on at least FreeBSD)
POSIX does not require a '-i' option on sed. (although the sed in FreeBSD does support it)
mkdir _is_ required to support '-p', and does in FreeBSD, at least.

Personally I like Illumos-based (the Solaris fork) systems better (if I don't need a desktop), but we have a good working relationship with our BSD friends.

[xvrqt]

Containers not working (but still having kernel isolation and resource management per process i.e. jails) is a huge plus. Containers are a big anti-pattern imo.

[NonameEthereal]

@3:33: What are you on about? mkdir -p is in literally all BSDs. I checked Open, Free, Net and Dragon just now.

[steveoc]

Jails - "Nobody uses it" ... hmmm

Well researched video !

[axky]

The xc project made containers work on freebsd, natively.

[Parker]

Honestly, I love FreeBSD and I wish I could recommend it to more people. I have an old, practically bricked laptop that I sometimes run FreeBSD on with a ten year old USB wifi adaptor, but last time I thought about giving it a go on my current laptop (a Framework 13 AMD model), the install media for FreeBSD 15 didn't even finish booting. As someone else mentioned, they've only recently mentioned laptops as even being worth considering, and given there only seems to be one person working on what is probably the biggest blocker for people wanting to run FreeBSD on a laptop (hardware compatibility; particularly in terms of wifi adaptors), I have no idea how long that's likely to take. It's a shame too; if FreeBSD had the hardware compatibility of Linux, I would probably recommend it over Linux for a lot of people.

[siuksliukaralius]

I moved to Mac in 2006 and never looked back. Gets job done without all the drama plus i still get to use Terminal and compile stuff if i want.,

[bradbeckett]

I grew up using PC’s since 1992 and you’re one of the few people on YouTube that actually knows what they are saying. Thank you 👍

[derhorst]

Nobody uses jails? OK, then I'm the only one who uses jails...

[jmpalacios]

It's incorrect to say that macOS is BSD UNIX. macOS is the comprised of the XNU Kernel, which is a descendant of the Carnegie Mellon Mach kernel, itself only cross-pollinated to some degree with BSD sources. On top of that you do have macOS incorporating FreeBSD's networking layer into XNU, and even the former's userland, but that still does not qualify macOS as a BSD mostly due to the hybrid nature of its kernel.

[swytchyglytch]

The big difference between Linux and FreeBSD is that Linux is just a kernel and different distros throw together a bunch of open-source tools to make their own flavor of an OS, but FreeBSD is its own complete and self-contained OS that you can modularly add on to, not to mention what's commonly called the "Linixulator" allowing you to install and use Linux stuff, including Brave and Steam, the most important ones to me lol. The way I see it, as far as the "Unix-like" world goes... FreeBSD is the standard to meet and Linux is the wild-west hobby section. I know that's not how it really is, but it *feels* like that to me, that's all I'm saying. Things like a saner userland are also nice.

[sdhute]

Ran BSD on all my dns and web servers back in 1999. Back then it just worked better than Linux.

[seedney]

I really like pledge, unveil, and pf firewall on openbsd... Wish to have something like that on RHEL out of the box...

[privettoli]

As a freebsd user, I do use jails a lot. There's no good native alternative.

[tionerd]

How are graphic drivers in BSD these days? My AMD RX6600 will work?