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> A big part of the difference is that the BSDs are designed by a governing committee. They usually don't have 15 different solutions for the same problem, but

> A big part of the difference is that the BSDs are designed by a governing committee. They usually don't have 15 different solutions for the same problem, but instead 2-3 solutions that work well. The right comparison is not between a particular BSD and Linux, its between a particular BSD and a Linux distro.

jeltz 1y ago
I feel the BSDs are much more different from each other than the average Linux distros are.
- graemep 1y ago
  Average/most popular distros, maybe. The full range of distros are very different from each other. Consider Void, Alpine, Gentoo, Chimera, NixOS..... Different C libraries, init systems, different default command line utilities....
  - anthk 1y ago
    That's nothing. Alpine can run Glibc binaries with compat libraries. Try running a FreeBSD binary under OpenBSD.
    - graemep 1y ago
      But only with compat libraries. Similarly FreeBSD can provide Linux compatility. Wine lets you run Windows binaries on multiple OSes.
      - anthk 1y ago
        You can't run neither FreeBSD nor NetBSD binaries under OpenBSD.