Another thing that's nice about the BSDs is that they are whole systems, not different sets of kernel+utilities packed up by third parties. Generally speaking,

Another thing that's nice about the BSDs is that they are whole systems, not different sets of kernel+utilities packed up by third parties. Generally speaking, that means that there's one canonical way to do something instead of a bunch of different ways like in Linux (think 'ifconfig' vs 'ip'). Of course, FreeBSD ships with three different firewalls[0], so that's not always true. There are downsides, of course. A freshly-installed BSD has a lot less stuff than a freshly-installed OpenSUSE/Ubuntu/Fedora/etc. [0] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls.html