I really wanted to make this article short … but I failed miserably. At least I tried to organize it well so one may get back to it after ‘some’ reading because its not a short le…

This blog by Vermaden is probably one of the most cited in the FreeBSD community when someone in a forum/subreddit asks why FreeBSD. I think it does a good job encapsulating the reasons one would choose FreeBSD over Linux or other OS’s.

I’ve become more partial to the *BSD’s in the past couple of years and respect what each one brings. I do daily drive Debian tho ;)

  • whoamiOP
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    2 years ago

    FreeBSD allows you to compile your own software from souce, which should allow you to choose where you install it…Gentoo’s portage is based off of FreeBSD. Also, pkgsrc is available to you. https://www.pkgsrc.org/