Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by adrian_b on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:06AM
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NVIDIA is the only GPU vendor who makes device drivers for FreeBSD, not only for Linux, so their GPUs work better than the others on FreeBSD.
Unfortunately the FreeBSD NVIDIA driver does not include CUDA.
It might be possible to use CUDA in a Linux VM with GPU pass-through, but I have not tried this.
FreeBSD has good driver support for many server-oriented devices, e.g. for many network cards, especially for those from Intel, and for many SCSI controllers. The support for magnetic tapes is also better than in Linux.
There are various random devices that may have good support, e.g. recording from a Logitech video camera worked much better for me on FreeBSD than on Linux, but in general the chances of not finding a device driver for some piece of hardware are much greater than on Linux, especially when that hardware is new.
Unfortunately the FreeBSD NVIDIA driver does not include CUDA.
It might be possible to use CUDA in a Linux VM with GPU pass-through, but I have not tried this.
FreeBSD has good driver support for many server-oriented devices, e.g. for many network cards, especially for those from Intel, and for many SCSI controllers. The support for magnetic tapes is also better than in Linux.
There are various random devices that may have good support, e.g. recording from a Logitech video camera worked much better for me on FreeBSD than on Linux, but in general the chances of not finding a device driver for some piece of hardware are much greater than on Linux, especially when that hardware is new.