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I've always used OS X and Linux in school, but for some reason I've really been curious about the BSDs. Would it be worth trying FreeBSD out in a VM? Unfortunat

• 2trill2spill 11y ago
  > I've always used OS X and Linux in school, but for some reason I've really been curious about the BSDs. Would it be worth trying FreeBSD out in a VM? Unfortunately I don't have a spare computer that I can test stuff on. It can't hurt to try using FreeBSD in a vm, that's how I started using FreeBSD and now that's what I run on my primary development machine.
• justinclift 11y ago
  Linux is absolutely a great thing for experimenting with, but once you're exposed to something that's planned/thought about... you get the sense it's an ever growing hodge-podge of utilities/functionality designed by people that don't really communicate with each other that well. Computers are growing more powerful, they should make our lives easier. That's not the direction Linux nor OSX nor Windows is going in the last few years. The BSD's each seem to take a more co-ordinated approach (better team communication?), so I'm personally hoping they do better over time. Try out the BSD's in a VM. Some of the command line utilities you're used to in Linux need different arguments, or aren't as feature rich. (I really miss tree mode in ps for example). But, in general the BSD's feel much better organised. Hope that helps. ;)