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Justine Smithies (npub1w65…6kyw)
My son experimented with BSD Unix a while back. Open Source works well due to competition in all software categories, so I'm glad Linux isn't the only game in town.
I advised a friend to install BSD as a virtual machine to get some experience with its firewall to prepare for a contractor job interview which resulted in his getting useful paid work. I used it myself very productively, going back to the late eighties and early nineties, when administrating a room full of Sun workstations.
The Linux tools and applications I regularly use now seem very similar and compile much the same, and perhaps now are a little more familiar to me in relation to some of the changes, e.g. systemd v sysvinit. The differences for users mainly seem to be kernel interfacing and management issues.
So if I were to run BSD Unix e.g. on a cloud server instance to support VPNs or a standalone web application, what would I be able to do with it better that doesn't work as well on Linux ?
My son experimented with BSD Unix a while back. Open Source works well due to competition in all software categories, so I'm glad Linux isn't the only game in town.
I advised a friend to install BSD as a virtual machine to get some experience with its firewall to prepare for a contractor job interview which resulted in his getting useful paid work. I used it myself very productively, going back to the late eighties and early nineties, when administrating a room full of Sun workstations.
The Linux tools and applications I regularly use now seem very similar and compile much the same, and perhaps now are a little more familiar to me in relation to some of the changes, e.g. systemd v sysvinit. The differences for users mainly seem to be kernel interfacing and management issues.
So if I were to run BSD Unix e.g. on a cloud server instance to support VPNs or a standalone web application, what would I be able to do with it better that doesn't work as well on Linux ?