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I am really surprised by all the negative comments in this thread about FreeBSD by people who seemingly use Linux and think this is an appropriate way to behave
by tristor 2y ago
I am really surprised by all the negative comments in this thread about FreeBSD by people who seemingly use Linux and think this is an appropriate way to behave.
There are many reasons why someone might use BSD, and it has several specific advantages over Linux for some use cases. That aside, even in cases where Linux is "better", FreeBSD is more than sufficient. There is no downside and many upsides to having multiple free operating systems that are aligned around the same core standard (POSIX) with tooling for software portability.
Thank you Germany for helping fund open source.
- spiderfarmer 2y agoYou're surprised by negative comments on HN?
- jmclnx 2y agoI am not. When I used Coherent OS, Linux was starting out and Linux people were spamming comp.os.coherent on USENET incessantly. The very few BSD people who posted were respectful of people on that group. Seems over the years, times have not changed :( And yes, a big thank you to Germany.
- elric 2y agoI'm not surprised, but I am a little disappointed. Some random tech fund gives a small amount of money to a project that can put it to good use, and even plans specific useful things with said money, and then some ninnies come along to complain about it? Why? Is it their money? Do they dislike FreeBSD benefiting from things? Are they jealous because their pet project didn't get any money in this particular instance? I'm sure some money goes towards silly things and could be spent on more worthwhile things, but this doesn't strike me as a waste of money...