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    From Morningstarr to ALL on Saturday, May 16, 2026 21:00:48
    What are the differences between BSD and Linux? Which one is better overall, and what are pros and cons?
    Thanks guys.
  • From Khronos@CWSHACK to Morningstarr on Sunday, May 17, 2026 13:18:33
    Morningstarr wrote to ALL <=-

    What are the differences between BSD and Linux? Which one is better overall, and what are pros and cons?

    If you have some hardware or ram to do a vm go ahead and try them out.
    You will learn something from all of them.
    FreeBSD has the best documentation.
    OpenBSD has best security setup.
    NetBSD runs on any hardware you throw at it.

    On the bbs machine I am working with here I'm seeing if I can do a
    multiboot setup so I can have a partition to play with each.

    Linux I like Slackware based distros and Debian based ones.
    Not so big on rpm based ones for personal use.
    Rpm stuff for the business related stuff or Debian for servers that must
    run and run.



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  • From Morningstarr to Khronos on Sunday, May 17, 2026 14:54:46
    I have only used debian based distros.
  • From Khronos@CWSHACK to Morningstarr on Sunday, May 17, 2026 19:39:48
    Morningstarr wrote to Khronos <=-

    I have only used debian based distros.

    I really depends on what your goals are.
    If you want to learn as much as you can try rpm based distros like Alma
    Linux or Rocky Linux.
    These are the open source replacements for RedHat.
    After this if you like try Arch based distros.
    This will give you a real feel for the different ways in which Linux
    distros are managed.
    After this try distros like Slackware or Salix.
    Salix probably has more packages though.
    Over time give all these systems a spin and see what you like best.
    Some people go for how they work with the different desktops and the
    features they offer, some people like the way the administration process works.
    Another thing is that different distros have different ideas when it
    comes to release processes.
    Some put them out often, some not so often and others do what are called rolling releases.
    It is really a wide world out there now with lots of choices.

    Then there's the Raspberry Pi line up of setups.
    An interesting thing about this is that you can get sd cards for not
    much money that will allow you to test lots of systems just by swapping
    in and out a card and booting the thing up.


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