Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
by viraptor on Sunday April 12, 2020 @11:12PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Isn't Linux an anagram (no not an anagram but I can't come up with the right word) for Linux Is Not UNix?
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
by rejschaap on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:43AM
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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. :)
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
by laumars on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:28PM
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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
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It's a recursive acronym.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
by hkt on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:20AM
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Backronym?
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
by Koshkin on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:50AM
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For all intensive purposes, it is.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
by sudosysgen on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:21AM
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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
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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
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goddamnit, well played :)
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
by cercatrova on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:19AM
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Intents and purposes
"Unix" hasn't referred to a specific operating system since the 1980s. FreeBSD and Linux are both Unix OSes: different flavors of it.