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I think the mismatch thing doesn’t really make sense, as you should consider freebsd as a complete OS rather than just the kernel, and archlinux as the same. Dr
by lnxg33k1 4y ago
I think the mismatch thing doesn’t really make sense, as you should consider freebsd as a complete OS rather than just the kernel, and archlinux as the same. Dragonflybsd and pcbsd for example have the same freebsd kernel, do they follow the freebsd way too?
The rest is about preference with the exception of DTrace that is imho superior , but I am not going to pick freebsd over Linux only for DTrace, as Linux has better compatibility and support with software and hardware in general imho
Edit ps: I use gentoo so I see the power of ports but I can match it with the wider support of Linux
- trasz 4y agoDragonflyBSD absolutely does not use the same kernel. It literally split off FreeBSD over kernel architecture differences.
- 0xcde4c3db 4y agoNot only that, the split was ca. 20 years ago, from FreeBSD 4.8. They're massively different now. DragonFly also uses NetBSD's pkgsrc system (having initially used a fork of the FreeBSD ports tree), so there are significant practical userland/sysadmin differences too.
- jillesvangurp 4y agoExactly, there are a lot of BSD variants out there. You might consider them BSD distributions even. And they are as different from each other as Linux distributions are from each other. They all share the same messy ancestry of different companies cloning Unix in the nineteen seventies and eighties and doing loosely the same things with loosely the same naming conventions and tool names.
- Koshkin 4y agoIndeed, ‘D’ is for ‘distribution’ :)