Reid Mar 25, 2024
BSD people: can someone please explain what the meaningful differences between FreeBSD and OpenBSD are?
Show threadDarkstarMar 25, 2024

@Reiddragon FreeBSD has ZFS and jails, and bhyve is easier with non-BSD guests.

OpenBSD has all configuration in one place, FreeBSD more scattered.

Sound usually works right out of the box on OpenBSD, on FreeBSD you have to tinker to get it working.

Show threadReid 
@darkstar I actually don't really care about any zfs stuff; jails are containers iirc? and what even is bhyve?

I don't mind configuration being a little scattered as long as it's not to an unreasonable degree like how on Linux you can set the cursor just fine from your display server's settings but then gtk magically needs its own setting for the cursors because fuck you

as for sound, let's just say I looked up my hardware on FreeBSD's compatibility list thingy and the results were... less than great
Mar 25, 2024 at 7:57amWeb
Show threadDarkstarMar 25, 2024

@Reiddragon jails are containers, mature technology.
Bhyve is the FreeBSD hypervisor, like KVM on Linux.

ZFS is wonderful, it provides snapshots, clones, and ZFS send and receive. Once you have worked with those, you don’t want it any other way :)