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Re:Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again by indigo945 on Monday November 03, 2025 @10:09AM (#45799878) 

    > PARTICULARLY for "open" software that has a paid hosted 
    > option.
That one is not a Linux problem, though - if any such software ran on BSD, the vendor would be likely to stifle it in the same way.

And otherwise, I don't know what software you're thinking of that is easier to deploy on BSD than on Linux.

To be blunt, the only reason this is a problem on Linux and not BSD is that no relevant software runs on BSD at all.

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Re:Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again by jimmaswell on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:58PM (#45826486)
> no relevant software runs on BSD at all.

I don't understand how you arrived at that conclusion. That comment probably passed through several BSD boxes on its way to me - BGP servers, DNS servers, absolutely critical things that *BSD shines at. Even this website itself apparently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041

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