From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Nov 27 22:37:06 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98170DEBA50 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:37:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-cmomta03.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 655EE68148 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:37:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from raspberrypi.bildanet.com ([65.186.81.207]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id JS2TexiBjuXOAJS2WetVtk; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:38:12 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.143] (helo=desktop.example.com) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1eJS1H-0002hW-QW for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:36:55 +0000 Subject: Re: Questions About To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20171127170322.7aaca527bebc2ec32ec95c58@sohara.org> <25393.128.135.52.6.1511807312.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:36:55 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <25393.128.135.52.6.1511807312.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfLMn199aYUUjYu4FIbkN+TMbgai9yg5zKs47psRlYkJIC0wuxReM2l+rycAooe+ZLxg7KgaJ786IgbgpzFPDKhtX/F08rmM2E7vq6mX6dUUfMhp2jPrT AtAHbr8Rpgxt0FHy2KVzzBEdq+B6STydbi/TVg20OqjhmpdzyUuwJWJ5B0DV0o8bsqK7+zAJKgzy79hrELzOo/aYv/eWv83vEek= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:37:06 -0000 On 11/27/17 13:28, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Mon, November 27, 2017 11:03 am, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:04:16 +0530 >> Rahul raj wrote: >> >>> How Different Bsd operating system from Linux ? >> >> That's a very big question. > > Small question, but calling for big answer ;-) I certainly am not as > knowledgeable as Steve O'Hara-Smith is. I just would add Linux refugee > prospective. > > Over 5 years ago I started seriously looking which system to migrate Linux > servers to. The reason (one of them) was: on average you have to reboot > Linux every 45 days. There is either kernel update or glibc update, so you > have to reboot. Compared to that FreeBSD only has updates requiring reboot > about once a year. Recently there were other big turns Linux took which > very many who use Linux dislike a lot (systemd, firewalld, and friends). > This can be considered question of taste, but for me that just confirmed I > was right when decided to flee servers to FreeBSD. My favorite CentOS > Linux (aka binary replica of RedHat Enterprise) became more like MS > Windows, and farther away from UNIX IMHO. > > Good luck making right choice. You can install two systems on the same > machine, and start using both, then you will make your own choice based on > your own experience. If it is server I would strongly recommend FreeBSD > (or any of close relatives like NetBSD). If it is workstation, it may be > simpler to install FreeBSD based TrueOS (formerly known as PC_BSD). I, > however, preferred a bit more works and have FreeBSD on my workstation and > on my PC laptop. > > Steve mentioned FreeBSD handbook. I would say, FreeBSD is the best > documented system IMO. > > Just my $0.02 > > Valeri > Actually Arch Linux is the best documented system. FreeBSD has nothing that is even close to the docs on Arch Linux site. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide https://bbs.archlinux.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/ https://security.archlinux.org/ https://bugs.archlinux.org/ https://aur.archlinux.org/ And this doesn't even account for all the mail list not the IRC channels And they are very helpful