what is freebsd

what is it, and how is it different from linux/windows and what not in terms of compatibility for popular media, can you do stuff similar to how wine does stuff on linux and such? im a noob dont kill me plz

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Yet Another Unix.

>>1 after you use Linux a bit, you'll be able to understand and appreciate the differences between it and Linux. Since you're probably going to be using a GUI Desktop anyways, there's really not enough difference for it to be worth your while.

Complicated.

"Different" Linuxes (Debian, Gentoo, slackware, Redhat) differ in their packaging systems.  For the listed above, refer to apt-get, emerge (portage), installpkg, rpm; such are systems of compression, scripts, programs, and distribution channels that determine how programs are generally installed.  In addition, files/directories that determine how services/daemons, such as ftpd, inetd, sshd, etc, differ between them.

However- and this is key- all these distributions run some version of the Linux kernel, the "core" of the Operating System.  The Linux kernel is "monolithic", i.e. many "peripheral" things which are arguably not part of what truly defines an Operating System such as device drivers and cryptographic functions are built (compiled, integrated) into it.

NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc. should not be confused with such Linux distributions because they are on a completely different paradigm.  BSD is as different from Linux as IRIX and AIX.  It is indeed different from Linux in the way it manages software (BSD uses the port system - which gentoo's portage is based off of).  But the differences are much more profound and deep as the everything from the various utilities to the kernel itself is written with different philosophies and ultimately have considerably odd or contradictory behavior in relation to linux (an exhaustive list of which could be found via google).

I have personally once believed a NetBSD machine to have hanged upon bootup, before realizing that the NetBSD bootup was significantly longer (and cryptic) than the Linux boots I was accustomed to.  Generally, BSDs are more secure and thus more slow in releasing the same awesome things that Linux gets (e.g. reiserfs)

my boss keeps referring to the debian machine as the "ambien" machine

Summary of differences between *BSD and linux: same shit, different pile.

BSD is pure awesome.
Linux is for whiny teenage opensores evangelists who dedicate their lives to being as obnoxious as possible.

Linux is for whiny teenage opensores evangelists who dedicate their lives to being as obnoxious as possible.
There is no way to argue with this.

>>9
bumping a 4 year old thread
FUCK YOU

>>11
>>8-san bumped it. MrVacBob-sama deleted his post, though. Please do not be mad at >>9-san for no reason.

>>12
While what >>8-san did was detestable, but >>9-san still bumped the thread when he replied.

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And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.

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And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.

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And the man said: 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

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And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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Genesis - Chapter 003

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Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'