Praise be to the RNG, but we still have plenty of increasingly niche options of operating systems. The more people use Linux, the more my hipster ass is drawn to BSD
Seems like the only real benefits are better docs and hardening for some stuff. But those come with so many compromises given how few things are built for BSDs.
Definitely a better design. Are the BSDs microkernels? I am quite unfamiliar with the architecture of BSD kernels. I have only interacted with userspace BSD software and their manpages.
Yeah I misremembered that, not sure where I got that from. I think at one point maybe BSD was smaller and more modular? But looks like little difference in recent years
Praise be to the RNG, but we still have plenty of increasingly niche options of operating systems. The more people use Linux, the more my hipster ass is drawn to BSD
Why use BSD though?
Seems like the only real benefits are better docs and hardening for some stuff. But those come with so many compromises given how few things are built for BSDs.
It was just a joke about wanting to be different
Microkernels are probably a better design, but not better enough to overcome inertia/better support/bigger user base
Definitely a better design. Are the BSDs microkernels? I am quite unfamiliar with the architecture of BSD kernels. I have only interacted with userspace BSD software and their manpages.
Yeah I misremembered that, not sure where I got that from. I think at one point maybe BSD was smaller and more modular? But looks like little difference in recent years
I think they are more minimal, but I don’t see them mentioned in discussion of microkernels.