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0 pointsMisterTea4y ago0 comments

> I wonder how many other greybeards that cut their teeth on SunOS prefer FreeBSD over Linux today?

Not a greybeard but I certainly reach for a BSD when I want to "use Unix".

Linux is a quivering basket case that cant decide if its Unix, MacOS or Windows.

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> Linux is a quivering basket case that cant decide if its Unix, MacOS or Windows.

A more positive spin on this would be that it combines the best of all three.

Personally I'm very much in the Unix camp though, and have the proverbial greybeard long enough to trip over. But I can see the value in the "Linux way" of doing things. Actually, I mostly just use Linux myself these days, mainly because of software compatibility and because it's "Unix-y enough" with the right distro; a decent trade-off.

rnd04y ago

>A more positive spin on this would be that it combines the best of all three.

A more accurate spin would be that it does a half-assed job of implementing features from each but runs off half way to chase after some other shiny feature.

That's the virtue of BSD; it's simple, it's documented it's complete (in features and feature implementation).

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