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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by chungy on Sunday April 12, 2020 @11:10PM (#22852851)
> According to the title, this is about choosing FreeBSD over Linux, not over Unix.

"Unix" hasn't referred to a specific operating system since the 1980s. FreeBSD and Linux are both Unix OSes: different flavors of it.

Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by viraptor on Sunday April 12, 2020 @11:12PM (#22852867)
That is my point though. Not every Unix system has a package manager. But almost every Linux distribution does.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by ekianjo on Monday April 13, 2020 @12:00AM (#22853067)
That's even one of they key attributes that makes differences between distributions: the package manager. Other major ones include the init system, and whether the distro is rolling release or not.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by zelphirkalt on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:37AM (#22854122)
Well, if you want to be precise … Linux is a kernel.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by rbanffy on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:38AM (#22854344)
And the OS is called GNU/Linux.

/me ducks

Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by saagarjha on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:30AM (#22854085)
Linux isn’t really a UNIX, though.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by hollander on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:34AM (#22854333)
Isn't Linux an anagram (no not an anagram but I can't come up with the right word) for Linux Is Not UNix?

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/LINUX

Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by rejschaap on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:43AM (#22854371)
You might be thinking of GNU, which is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix".

As far as I understand it we got the name Linux because Linus Torvalds was quite bad at naming things. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming

Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by laumars on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:28PM (#22859145)
No, that’s GNU with the “not UNIX” recursive acronym. Linux was named by the guy who first hosted Linus’ OS and was an amalgamation of “Linus” and “UNIX” (“nix” was a popular suffix for platforms of that type back in those days so “Linux” was a play on the authors name in the style of that naming convention).

If I recall correctly, Linus originally wanted his OS to be called “Freenix” because he thought naming it after himself was a little vein.

Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by noisem4ker on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:44AM (#22856270)
It's a recursive acronym.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by hkt on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:20AM (#22854821)
Backronym?
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by Koshkin on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:50AM (#22855378)
For all intensive purposes, it is.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by sudosysgen on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:21AM (#22855577)
I think the expression might be "for all intents and purposes".
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by Koshkin on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:33AM (#22855673)
I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment...
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by sudosysgen on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:06PM (#22858280)
goddamnit, well played :)
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by cercatrova on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:19AM (#22855565)
Intents and purposes
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by utxaa on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:20AM (#22867052)
really?