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Unix has always been the best operating system in the world because of its philosophy:

- Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

- Write programs that work together.

- Write programs that handle text streams, because it is a universal interface.

FreeBSD is a pure and hard Unix because its code derives from BSD which in turn derives from the original Unix of AT&T Labs.

Linux on the other hand is a Unix clone since its code was written from scratch and never shared code with the original Unix.

It is true that for years Linux followed the Unix philosophy but that has long since come to an end, so today Linux should not even be considered a Unix clone because of the horrendous systemd controlled by Lennart Poettering and in turn by Microsoft.

What is happening to Linux could very well happen to Bitcoin, so keep your eyes open, no matter how good a project is it can end up degrading, but luckily we have the BSD family that unlike the Linux family have always had very clear objectives, to be UNIX.

Shawn 9mo ago

I ran FreeBSD back in the early 2000s. Now you have me wanting to give it another go.

Would you suggest FreeBSD, GhostBSD, Dragonfly, other?

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Cyph3rp9nk 9mo ago

FreeBSD always although DragonFlyBSD is a very interesting project and also works very well.

Shawn 9mo ago

🚀

Shawn 9mo ago

FreeBSD w/ X11 + xfce up and running in a VM. I forgot how much cleaner and simpler it is.

Cyph3rp9nk 9mo ago

It is much more consistent than linux distributions.

Bill Cypher 9mo ago

I was just thinking I need to set up a VM. I know I can use different init systems with Linux, the issue is that fracturing makes searching for fixes for issues much harder.