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After dealing with Ubuntu all day at work it's such a breath of fresh air when I finally get to use FreeBSD at home. Thank you FreeBSD community for building an

After dealing with Ubuntu all day at work it's such a breath of fresh air when I finally get to use FreeBSD at home. Thank you FreeBSD community for building and maintaining such a gem of an OS. Sincerely, happy user for 21 years now.

whitepoplar 4y ago
What do you like most about FreeBSD over Ubuntu?
- rwaksmunski 4y ago
  Documentation, elegant simplicity, ports feature flags, POLA, ZFS, observability, instrumentation, integration. Almost every FreeBSD sub-system feels as if it was thought through and built by a passionate expert engineer.
  - systemvoltage 4y ago
    BSD License. Free, as in properly free. It's in the name. If you're a small business and want to build proprietary system, and don't have the money to shell out millions in licensing fees; FreeBSD is your system. It's the only way to beat mega corps and incumbents. FreeBSD keeps this asymmetry in check. Before someone comments about open source, there are reasons out of your hand to keep source code proprietary. For those applications, FreeBSD is a boon.
    - creatonez 4y ago
      > Before someone comments about open source, there are reasons out of your hand to keep source code proprietary Thing is, usually those reasons don't actually exclude the usage of GPL despite someone saying they do. Google is the biggest offender here, they have outright lied about the terms of GPLv2/3 in order to have quick and easy excuses to avoid it.
      - systemvoltage 4y ago
        I should have clarified, proprietary software that needs to be compiled and distributed; GPL compels disclosure of the source code in this case.
- tiew9Vii 4y ago
  Most Linux distributions today are large, fragmented, file systems/config files/apps not as coherent as they once was. The BSD’s are purists. Strong consistency on the file system/configs, strong design principles on keeping things simple. I only recently tried BSD’s after being a long term Linux user. I don’t use them on the Desktop, so can’t comment about that. On headless servers, after the initial getting familiar period, I find them a joy to work with taking me back to when I first tried Linux using Slackware.

whitepoplar 4y ago

What do you like most about FreeBSD over Ubuntu?

rwaksmunski 4y ago
Documentation, elegant simplicity, ports feature flags, POLA, ZFS, observability, instrumentation, integration. Almost every FreeBSD sub-system feels as if it was thought through and built by a passionate expert engineer.
- systemvoltage 4y ago
  BSD License. Free, as in properly free. It's in the name. If you're a small business and want to build proprietary system, and don't have the money to shell out millions in licensing fees; FreeBSD is your system. It's the only way to beat mega corps and incumbents. FreeBSD keeps this asymmetry in check. Before someone comments about open source, there are reasons out of your hand to keep source code proprietary. For those applications, FreeBSD is a boon.
  - creatonez 4y ago
    > Before someone comments about open source, there are reasons out of your hand to keep source code proprietary Thing is, usually those reasons don't actually exclude the usage of GPL despite someone saying they do. Google is the biggest offender here, they have outright lied about the terms of GPLv2/3 in order to have quick and easy excuses to avoid it.
    - systemvoltage 4y ago
      I should have clarified, proprietary software that needs to be compiled and distributed; GPL compels disclosure of the source code in this case.
tiew9Vii 4y ago
Most Linux distributions today are large, fragmented, file systems/config files/apps not as coherent as they once was. The BSD’s are purists. Strong consistency on the file system/configs, strong design principles on keeping things simple. I only recently tried BSD’s after being a long term Linux user. I don’t use them on the Desktop, so can’t comment about that. On headless servers, after the initial getting familiar period, I find them a joy to work with taking me back to when I first tried Linux using Slackware.