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I really like the way FreeBSD separates system and third party software, the latter typically being installed to /usr/local. Linux' failure to differentiate be

by pconf 15y ago

I really like the way FreeBSD separates system and third party software, the latter typically being installed to /usr/local. Linux' failure to differentiate between system and non-system binaries is IMO one of it's worst features. Neither FreeBSD nor Linux accommodate network mounted NFS mounted applications as well as SunOS did so successfully by the late '80s. This is probably due to the corrupting influence of Unix and Linux engineers who came from MS Windows backgrounds. Windows admins waste countless hours having to install software locally on every machine. Sad that only Solaris provides for a standard network-based application filesystem. Odd too that Solaris is home to the single most ill-thought-out non-system directory, /opt.

Sorpigal 15y ago
BSD is in a position to differentiate in a way that Linux just isn't. In Linux all* software is third party, except for the kernel and util-linux (and maybe fileutuls or some other set of GNU software). To me the BSD distinction doesn't make much sense anyway. You still have to just know which bits are "local" and which are not, plus anything I pull in that isn't a port gets lumped in with them anyway.