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Do you or anyone similarly have any suggestions or recommendations about NetBSD or OpenBSD? With Linux, the decision to choose Debian and CentOS has been easy f
by foo101 9y ago
Do you or anyone similarly have any suggestions or recommendations about NetBSD or OpenBSD? With Linux, the decision to choose Debian and CentOS has been easy for me. Ubuntu is very popular and Debian is at the top of the lineage tree. Similarly, RHEL or CentOS is very popular in the industry where RHEL is at the top of the lineage tree and CentOS is just the rebranded RHEL made available for free.
But with BSD, inspite of being very interested in it, I have not been able to pick one due to analysis paralysis. If I have enough time only to spend time with one of the BSDs, what possible criteria should I use to evaluate them against one another and pick one?
- chousuke 9y agoGive OpenBSD a try. Of the BSDs I've tried, it's the one that feels the most "tasteful", if that makes sense. Everything in the base system is well-documented, well-executed and feels consistent, and most things just do the right thing with minimal configuration.
- kqr 9y agoThe two things that made me install FreeBSD rather than OpenBSD was (1) the better hardware support when it comes to Intel-derived architectures, and (2) not as opinionated and, frankly, in many cases plain rude, project leads. From a technical and documentation standpoint, OpenBSD is utterly fantastic and FreeBSD is doing its best to get ahead.