diff --git a/articles/bsd.md b/articles/bsd.md index 2cf7d01..ccef01d 100644 --- a/articles/bsd.md +++ b/articles/bsd.md @@ -6,15 +6,22 @@ be considered a clean room implementation of Unix. Compared to Linux, BSDs have managed to keep the bloat in check and a reasonable codebase. -{ I've yet to try a BSD, so anything written here (as of now) is from an "outsider" perspective, forgive any erroneous statements ~tocariimaa } +Unfortunately due to not being as popular as Linux, hardware support is lacking, even for old computers more than one thing is broken +(suspend-to-RAM, audio, Wireless cards...), so unless you run really old hardware (or just a computer that happens to work) BSDs are not +a very reasonable choice. For servers maybe, but note that BSD more insecure than Linux. +{ Installed FreeBSD on a thinkpad, resuming from suspension is broken and after installing +the graphics driver, the console just broke, now the installation is bricked LMAO. Now I get it, BSDs aren't mean for desktop usage +but for insecure servers :DDD ~tocariimaa } ## Main BSD distros - [FreeBSD](https://www.freebsd.org/): the most popular, quite "Linux-like", plans to drop support for 32 bit architectures. - [NetBSD](https://netbsd.org/): focus on portability, main user of [pkgsrc](https://www.pkgsrc.org/), supports [Lua](lua.md) in the kernel for driver prototyping and kernel configuration. -- [OpenBSD](https://www.openbsd.org/): quite hysterical with "security features", but functional as its contributors actually daily drive it. +- [OpenBSD](https://www.openbsd.org/): quite hysterical with "security features", but functional as its contributors actually daily drive it (on thinkpads). Was forked from NetBSD. +No, MacOS is not a BSD. FreeBSD users, stop coping. + ## Historical BSDs - 386BSD: first version of BSD for IBM PC like computers. It was ready before Linux was released but due to legal issues with AT&T it couldn't be released until 1992, a year later after Linux initial release. FreeBSD and NetBSD were forked from 386BSD.