Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti...
by toast0 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:05PM
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The user facing surface of FreeeBSD from twenty years ago is still pretty similar to the surface today.
ifconfig still configures network interfaces (including wireless)
the init system is still the same
you still have the same three firewalls to choose from
the audio system is still the same
The internals are quite a bit different (and more capable), and I don't think zfs was in FreeBSD back then, but UFS2 still works.
If you want to experience twenty year old FreeBSD, to compare with modern FreeBSD, Apple has lovingly preserved it as the userland unix interface in MacOs, they've even got a circa 2000 tcp stack.
ifconfig still configures network interfaces (including wireless)
the init system is still the same
you still have the same three firewalls to choose from
the audio system is still the same
The internals are quite a bit different (and more capable), and I don't think zfs was in FreeBSD back then, but UFS2 still works.
If you want to experience twenty year old FreeBSD, to compare with modern FreeBSD, Apple has lovingly preserved it as the userland unix interface in MacOs, they've even got a circa 2000 tcp stack.