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Agree with all except the package management part. I switched to Debian after 15 years using FreeBSD simply due to how much better apt is. I don't have much tim
by kiwijamo 5y ago
Agree with all except the package management part. I switched to Debian after 15 years using FreeBSD simply due to how much better apt is. I don't have much time so unattended-upgrades is a live saver for me. I do miss FreeBSD though, it is really well designed and thought out but it is more suited to people who are happy to maintain the packages regularly especially when there are major upgrades. A recent example is the change in the default version for Python which needed some manual intervention to sort out the packages. Somethjng that honestly apt does much better.
- drewg123 5y agoWhatever happened to debian built around FreeBSD? (debian kFreeBSD?). Did systemd kill it?
- toast0 5y agoI tried it circa 2012 (on a macbook, which was clearly a bad choice, but work told me I would love a mac and I didn't so might as well try other bad things). It was kind of a mess, I recall having trouble with basic networking utilities because they tried to provide GNU tools, but they didn't really work and you'd need to get the FreeBSD tools anyway, which was tricky because those weren't packaged.
- rwaksmunski 5y agoI agree, apt is a path well traveled and python2 -> python3 migration had some opportunities for improvement. On the other hand I can custom build nginx with a TUI and have package registered as an actual package instead of just being dumped into /usr/bin & /etc/ like with a manual build on Linux. That feature alone makes me believe FreeBSD packages are a tiny bit better as I use it all the time.
- alyandon 5y agoYou can build Debian packages from source with custom options to get a resulting .deb to install. I will fully admit the process tends to be a bit easier when dealing with BSD ports though.