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      Unbreakably stable, cohesive (no need to fit and manage tens of different pieces to get a get a functionning OS), performant, bhyve, BSD licensed (can be a pro or con tho). It has quite a lot of stuff that makes it worthy of Linux or other BSDs.

      EDIT: Almost forgot ZFS.

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        Not to mention that generations of Playstation and Nintendo consoles run on top of their work, and Apple’s macOS also has deep roots into the BSD history

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      There’s an old saying: “Linux users use Linux because they hate Windows. BSD users use BSD because they love Unix.” Obviously this is not true for every individual user, but I think it describes a trend or pattern.

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      Much smaller footprint than Linux. If you’re running a server, it’s much less vulnerable to malicious exploits.

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        Yeah, BSD is now in the situation that Linux was in the early 00s. Smaller, faster, and more reliable than the “other guy”.

        Faster and more reliable are far closer for BSD and Linux than Linux and Windows, but now it seems that BSD is possibly there.

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      FreeBSD is the tool you don’t know you need, and then suddenly there’s the perfect use case, because those BSD alchemists never get tired of tinkering on it and suddenly BSD overtake Linux or Windows in some areas. You think Linux is everywhere, same with BSD its just better at hiding.

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        and then suddenly there’s the perfect use case

        Yeah but like WHAT?

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          Like when you want to have a fully-fledged OS that you can rebrand, close the source and sell as your invention.

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          The NAS community seems to have standardized on BSD for reasons outside of my understanding. If you’re looking to roll your own NAS you might end up with BSD rather than Linux.

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            ZFS is baked in by default and the os is rock solid stable. It follows the same philosophy as Debian really, only the most tried and tested code makes it into the os.

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          How can I know? it’s something people need to research when they choose OS for their projects.

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        BSD overtake Linux or Windows in some areas

        Any examples? besides the well known security, lower footprint and simplicity. genuinely curious.

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      I’ve ran a freebsd based version of TrueNas on consumer hardware for well over 400 days straight. It’s the most stable system I’ve ever run.

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        Haha yeah actually I wonder whether people actually did ask this when Linux started making the rounds. If I read the history right BSD was already almost 15 years old at the time!

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          It was, but there wasn’t an i386 BSD yet (which is where OpenBSD and NetBSD enter the picture). Linus Torvalds has said if OpenBSD had been available when he started the linux kernal, he would have just used that instead