🤷🏻‍♂️ 'How are BSD UNIX and Linux different?'

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[adammontgomery]

I find the bsds to be more consistent with where things get located in the filesystem. I also like the rc script system over systemd. Although I've never had issues with systemd, it doesn't make much sense once you take a look at BSDs init system.

[sbrazenor]

People game on BSD. The Playstations run on BSD.

[csteelecrs]

The reason that router manufacturers choose BSD is because the BSD license allows them to use BSD without open sourcing their code.

[censoredeveryday]

Storage Area Network (SAN) appliances were often BSD running on embedded custom PCBs. Very stable

[howardtayloresq.]

Yep Mac OS from osx runs on bsd, reliable too

[tonykivits]

Great video! Thanks!

I am someone that learned FreeBSD before Linux back in the dial up modem days so I can tell you from experience that the two are a lot alike and are also a lot different. That doesn't make one better or worse then the other. That just makes them different.
Over the years, I have seen things like jails start in FreeBSD and then because of their slow want to change allow to be overtaken by projects like containers. (FYI Jails predate containers by almost a decade.)

Because of these distinctions and rate of changes there are some projects that I prefer to put on FreeBSD and some projects that I prefer to put on Linux.

I agree with you that there is no need to learn both originally but I do think that it is important that you understand the distinctions so that you can use the right tool for the job when needed. 😉

[richardbennett]

😮
The first major difference is that one is an operating system while the other one is simply a kernel that cannot operate a system without other applications, utilities, and programs.

That's the very first hugest difference. 😮

[elsuperpollo]

I mainly ever used debian, I would love to try freebsd and haiku os. With mac Intel and Microsoft then reading about linux being breached I want to use a different daily driver for desktop.

[petardjukic]

BlayStation is Gaming BSD not to mention others.. ;)

[brianmcgovern]

He hit the nail on the head about the 3 minute mark. BSD: Its got to be good, its got to be stable, its got to make sense. Linux: You have a new toy? Sure! Lets throw it in this release. If we decide we don't like it tomorrow, we'll just pull it back out.

I have useful, literally 30 year old source I still pull out on occasion and use on BSD... and in fact, a whole bunch of 30+ year old software I use every day. I also have commercial software that I have to keep with a copy of the OS on Linux because they literally broke and/or removed significant features the next release, and its but one of hundreds of examples of exactly the same problem.

[David_Groves]

One thing you didnt mention here was jails in FreeBSD and how they are very similar to lxc and in fact predate them.

I migrated a platform from Linux to FreeBSD in the esrly 00s for jails but went back 18months later as LXC matured and overtook it.

Not sure wbat the current atate of jails is, but it would be interesting to explore.

[miserj]

I like Linux for what it’s trying to do and I also like the BSD’s for what they are trying to do too. ❤

[bartekguz]

No gaming on BSD? Isn’t PlayStation based on freeBSD?

[hosseines]

12:01 as far as I know, the Sony's PlayStation 4 OS is based on one FreeBSD-based OS. beside that, I've never seen or heard anything or anyone using any BSDs for gaming
I've seen some stats which Valve released some years ago, that 0.01% of users' devices are `other` or `unknown` that also could be Linux users too but using some very niche distro or something

[kylecurry]

FreeNAS uses Jails, but I agree, cloud architecture depends immensely on Linux under the hood from things like LXC or QEMU.

[interferonrecon]

Now this is the kind of shit I wanna learn at school.

[gpubvhi]

I use the best of both worlds: Void Linux! BTW, Are you a FBI surveillance officer doing part time Youtube videos? 😄😄😄

[austinwilliams]

A lot of Linux distributions come with Vi, so I’m surprised a lot linux users don’t know it exists.

[michaelheimbrand]

Wait, isn't mkdir -p available on Linux? I didn't know that. I used it several times today but that was on OpenBSD and I know it works on MacOS.

[peterjansen]

I respect BSD, if I am not mistaken the core-netwerksoftware (not talking about a tool like NetWorkManager, that is higher level) comes from BSD. Awesome! I can't use it though because I can't game much on BSD so for the foreseeable future I will use Linux. Linux just is more mature for the desktop.