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Most Linux distributions are much more similar to each other than BSDs are. At least that's my impression after spending the last month at work porting a bunch
by 5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
Most Linux distributions are much more similar to each other than BSDs are. At least that's my impression after spending the last month at work porting a bunch of scripts from Linux to several BSDs (Free, Open, and Net). The differences are too many to describe here, from where they install third party libraries, to configuration file locations and formats, to how basic tools work (essential things like grep/sed/awk have (sometimes very) different feature sets, flags, and runtime characteristics (for example, how exactly do they handle signals)). Default shells are also very different, though that's a pretty minor thing.
If you compare something like Debian, Alpine, and NixOS, then maybe..
- bluejekyll 5y agoI find each Linux OS that’s based around a different package manager to generally feel like a different operating system. That’s my point. The BSDs all have a common ancestor. The Linux’s tend to all have a GNU user space, the kernels are mostly the same, but the OS layout tends to differ in important ways.