[HN Gopher] A Love Letter to FreeBSD
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       A Love Letter to FreeBSD
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 64 points
       Date   : 2025-11-30 22:05 UTC (54 minutes ago)
        
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       | tuhgdetzhh wrote:
       | A love letter to the last operating system that isn't trying to
       | gaslight you. FreeBSD really is the anti-hype choice: no mascot-
       | as-a-service, no quarterly identity crisis, just a system that
       | quietly works until the heat death of the universe.
        
         | CalChris wrote:
         | Speaking of better vendor support, why doesn't it support Apple
         | Silicon yet? Obviously, Asahi has led the way on this and their
         | m1n1 boot loader can be used out of the box. But OpenBSD has
         | supported Apple Silicon for three years now.
        
       | adastra22 wrote:
       | I so wish that FreeBSD was GPL. I know this won't be a popular
       | opinion, but I believe that success Linux has had is because of
       | copyleft, and *BSD are riding on the coat tails of that.
       | 
       | But I don't like Linux. I use it daily, but I don't like it. I
       | wish FreeBSD held the position Linux does in the market today.
       | That would be heaven.
        
         | a-dub wrote:
         | freebsd didn't have the hardware support base that linux did
         | and suffered a huge delay in rearchitecture when x86 smp
         | hardware became widely available. (only one cpu could be in the
         | kernel at a time, the "bkl", was a major impediment in the
         | early 00s). freebsd had better resource scheduling at the time
         | and a beloved networking stack, but linux caught up with
         | cgroups etc. i think linux was also just a trendy vanguard of
         | sorts as the world learned of open source software by and of
         | the internet.
        
         | CalChris wrote:
         | GCC vs LLVM. It isn't the license.
        
           | bigfishrunning wrote:
           | I don't know about that... Llvm didn't exist until 2003. The
           | BSDs and Linux both existed for a long time before that, and
           | Linux already had much more momentum at that point.
        
           | blueflow wrote:
           | I think that's less because of the license and more because
           | people found patching gcc to be a big pain.
        
             | CalChris wrote:
             | Correct, it's not the license.
        
         | hnthrowaway0328 wrote:
         | Can you please elaborate the str of Freebsd vs Linux?
        
       | alex1138 wrote:
       | I know this is the noob perspective but they should try (yes, I'm
       | already aware of GhostBSD) to make getting into the desktop a
       | little bit easier, it can be very hard to bootstrap anything and
       | learn if you're new to it
        
       | sapphirebreeze wrote:
       | REDWALL
        
       | kosolam wrote:
       | As a small user I find it hard to find a use case where I'd want
       | a bsd for some reason. I even installed ghostbsd in a vm to try
       | it but it seemed very similar to linux so I didn't understand
       | what's the upside?
        
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