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And what 3ish are those? Serious question. Of the top of my hat I can come up with freebsd, netbsd, openbsd and dragonfly bsd. And those fork like crazy in ghos
by BlackLotus89 6y ago
And what 3ish are those? Serious question. Of the top of my hat I can come up with freebsd, netbsd, openbsd and dragonfly bsd. And those fork like crazy in ghost bsd, pcbsd (I think that's dead), freenas, trueos and pfsense just to name a few. I don't follow the BSD ecosystem closely, but I got interested in trying it out again (since the last time I tried a bsd was over 10 years ago), but my impression was always that the BSD ecosystem had way harder forks that didn't share code between each other (or rarely do) and makes it harder to know what works and what doesn't.
At one CCC event there was a talk about a security vulnerability and it was interesting to see how the response times of the different BSDs was and how they tackled the security fix.
- carlhjerpe 6y agoWell Free, Net and OpenBSD. I wouldn't call FreeNAS/TrueNAS and pfSense distros in the sense of a Linux dist (since they are non generic, I see them as an "application" that happens to include an operating system). "All" "distro bsds" seem to follow FreeBSD very closely and building upon it rather than modifying it (providing installers and such while still being a true FreeBSD). Dragonfly being the exception here, don't know enough about it. Disclaimer: I'm no expert and do not mean to step on anyones toes.