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For someone who’s interested in getting into any *BSD, which should I go with? OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
by Alifatisk 2y ago
For someone who’s interested in getting into any *BSD, which should I go with? OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
- bell-cot 2y agoWhat's your use case? (FWIW, there several other *BSD's.)
- Alifatisk 2y agoI don't have any specific use case yet, I'm planning on having a little server at home. Things I'll use it for is hosting small apps, local dns server, monitor our LAN and maybe act as a host for multiplayer games.
- p_ing 2y agoWhat games? Few multiplayer servers, if any, would run natively on a BSD. Unless you're spinning up a MUD.
- homebrewer 2y agoFreeBSD is much more similar to Linux (you'll feel right at home in a few hours of practice), usually performs better, supports more hardware, includes full ZFS support (including root-on-ZFS — and several FreeBSD developers work on ZFS full time), has decent compatibility with Linux binaries, and more software in the ports.
- dilippkumar 2y agoI use OpenBSD. I love it, but I recommend reading warnings on the label. I would say FreeBSD is somewhat like Ubuntu is to Linux - easy to get setup, works for more people. There isn’t anything like OpenBSD in the Linux world - where the primary focus is system correctness, even at the cost of user convenience at times.