Reid Mar 25, 2024
BSD people: can someone please explain what the meaningful differences between FreeBSD and OpenBSD are?
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The visible similarity I guess is basically the ports system. OpenBSD feels quite ingenius, in a way only a relatively small operating system community can. What's normal on openbsd feels like good ways to do things. Unfortunately if there isn't a current dev for something, the person who has to step up is you.

FreeBSD worked hard to nurture its positive (if worryingly professional) community. It's unfair to freebsd maybe, but I would say there's a bit of a debian or gentoo vibe.

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@screwtape I don't mind gentoo stuff, but if it's "ubuntu vibes" in the ways I understand it then that's a hard no from me, Ubuntu is absolute horseshit to say the least
Mar 25, 2024 at 7:54amWeb
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@Reiddragon I withdraw that bile. Actually, I'll edit it out. But Gentoo, definitely. I was trying to say super-main-stream and hardware-company-friendly or something.
Show threadReid Mar 25, 2024
@screwtape that makes a bit more sense, but as "friendly" as it supposedly is, most of my hardware is marked incompatible on FreeBSD's hardware tracker sooooo 
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@Reiddragon mhd's toot was portentious