irkkaaja said:it kind of depends on the distribution. The differences between FreeBSD and any Debian flavor (sidux, mepis, ubuntu) are pretty major:
source installations vs binary installation
OSS vs ALSA/PulseAudio
UFS2/ZFS vs ext4/XFS
tcsh vs dash
install to /usr/local/bin vs install to /usr/bin
clang vs gcc (coming soon!)
FreeBSD's /dev is somewhat nicer
bsd libc vs eglibc
disklabel vs fdisk -l
freebsd-update vs apt-get upgrade
rc.d vs init.d
One point in Linux's favor:
16-color, text-only console vs. framebuffer
I would really like to go xorg-less, but lack of anything like Linux's framebuffer means I have to use X if I want to do anything with graphics or video.