[TUHS] FreeBSD behind the times? (was: Favorite unix design principles?)

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Feb 5 08:25:59 AEST 2021


On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Angus Robinson wrote:

> Not entirely sure as it's been a while since iI have used it but last 
> time I remember TrueOS which used FreeBSD was easy to use for a newbie. 
> There are other FreeBSD distro's like GhostBSD,etc that have an 
> installer like Linux. My 2c is that FreeBSD is not trying to get 
> people in that are newbies, it's for the server environment and it works 
> extremely well. 

Exactly; FreeBSD is not for newbies: I'll leave Penguin/OS to that market.

Mind you, OpenBSD was a bit of a bugger; all services are off by default. 
It's perfect for a firewall :-)

-- Dave


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