Why FreeBSD?
Because we all live in harmony here and we don't start a religious war every time a parishioner has a vision and starts his/her/it own parish.
Why FreeBSD?
+ACKvermaden said:Let me quote someone from the Internet: "Because of GPL and Lennart".Why FreeBSD?
ctaranotte said:Why FreeBSD?
Because we all live in harmony here and we don't start a religious war every time a parishioner has a vision and starts his/her/it own parish.
Okay, to answer some of these original questions:owemeacent said:I've heard that BSD "isn't that good", or that the BSD developers use Macs to develop FreeBSD. And that there's this USB drive thing where the system gets a kernel panic when when you take it out of the slot before you unmount it. And that BSD is much slower than Linux and everything else.
Is this stuff true? Why do people use FreeBSD instead of Linux? Or Mac? Or Windows? What does BSD have that all the other operating systems don't?
ctaranotte said:Because we all live in harmony here and we don't start a religious war every time a parishioner has a vision and starts his/her/it own parish.
owemeacent said:I'm a Gentoo and Arch user. I love these two distributions dearly.
You should check out: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_Systemsegfault said:But last I checked Arch wouldn't allow me to build/install applications from source. FreeBSD on the other hand allows you to install software from source or as a binary and does so right out of the box. It's done it for years, and it does it well. It still amazes me that Linux has yet to make this happen.owemeacent said:I'm a Gentoo and Arch user. I love these two distributions dearly.
qweefb said:Mac uses FreeBSD userland so I can use all the UNIX tools that I am used to on both operating systems and Apple really does a good job in providing a good user interface and good hardware design.
kpa said:qweefb said:Mac uses FreeBSD userland so I can use all the UNIX tools that I am used to on both operating systems and Apple really does a good job in providing a good user interface and good hardware design.
This is not quite the way things are in OS X. Some parts of the userland are from FreeBSD but for most part it's developed from NeXTSTEP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP
Thanks for providing extra information! I really love both systems. However, in Hong Kong, there is no local FreeBSD community. If you need any help, you must look for some foreign websites.FreeBSD is Just OS X Without the Good Bits
This is as much a myth about OS X as about FreeBSD: that OS X is just FreeBSD with a pretty GUI. The two operating systems do share a lot of code, for example most userland utilities and the C library on OS X are derived from FreeBSD versions. Some of this code flow works in the other direction, for example FreeBSD 9.1 and later include a C++ stack and compiler that were originally developed for OS X, with major parts of the work done by Apple employees. Other parts are very different.
The XNU kernel used on OS X includes a few subsystems from (older versions of) FreeBSD, but is mostly an independent implementation. The similarities in the userland, however, make it much easier to port OS X code to FreeBSD than any other system. For example, both libdispatch (Grand Central Dispatch in Apple's marketing) and libc++ were written for OS X and worked on FreeBSD before any other OS.