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While you may have a point that its harder to find a BSD person, I would say because BSD has a cathedratic model, it is much much easier to get up to date with
by nmz 4y ago
While you may have a point that its harder to find a BSD person, I would say because BSD has a cathedratic model, it is much much easier to get up to date with it. While Linux has sporadic documentation, you have to go scavenge through the entire internet looking for answers, everything is in one place, the freebsd forum. ports itself even comes with a file containing bugfixes and notes, telling you what breaks and what precautions to take with each software. The bazaar model is hard to grasp and learn from. GNU has pushed their business model to be books. It means you have incomplete documentation (man pages) everywhere. You either buy the books to know how things work internally, or hopefully someone somewhere jotted down your problem/solution, albeit in SO, a ML, some book or who knows where.
- UI_at_80x24 4y agoThis is the truth right here. With the skills you have as a Linux person you can easily migrate to (Free|Open)BSD. I started with Debian in ~1994'ish (USB didn't work yet, it was probably the stable branch at the time). I had DECADES of experience with Linux. It was easy to transition to *BSD. This is the beauty of Unix. I still get a brain fumble when I'm bouncing between systems and type the wrong command on OpenBSD vs FreeBSD when I'm doing something common like installing or searching for software. The core mechanics work everywhere. Knowing the right question to ask when searching gets you that last 10%. How do I restart the $X service on: (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, RedHat, Debian, Arch, ...etc) (Free|Open)BSD are more simple, while Linux feels more automagical in the way services are managed. I dislike SystemD for this reason and prefer the BSDs.