Which new OS should I move too?

I need a new OS on my main box. Something technical that will give me a more in-dept knowledge of the technicalities of Unix and Linux.

I'll be attending a grey hat boot camp in a few weeks. What should I compile?

I'm a newbie to network OSes and the only Linux I use extensively is Ubuntu.

NO EXCEPTIONS

NetBSD

If you enjoy compiling everything, Gentoo is your game. If you to do more productive things than compiling everything, Debian is great IMO.

LFS.

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>>3

BSD vs Linux flame wars apart....

....what are the benefits of BSD and vice-versa. I never gave it much thought cause I was always centered on home computing where imo linux is much easier to use.

Minix

>>7
I've no idea. I was just hoping for a BSD vs Linux flame war

>>7
freebsd is faster than linux, more stable than linux, and easier to install than most linux distributions. if you want really easy, pc-bsd is easier to install than ubuntu. freebsd also has a linux compatibility layer that can run linux binaries, often faster than linux itself.

>>10

But is it more secure than Linux?

>>11
Soldier here. With that snotty Linux attitude, you would never get my rock-hard, low-body-fat, clean-cut-with-sexy-tattoos, uniformed body.

I'd flirt with you and you'd think it was amazing, and get all hot for me, and I'd tell you I'd pick you up at your place after you got off work, or call and coordinate something after you got off, and you'd gush with excitement, and happily give me your number in purple gel pen with a little smiley face on it.

But then I'd never call, or never meet up with you, even though you were changed and ready to go, perhaps even willing to fuck with little pushing. Because I'd be off in the barracks playing with my bros.

And then I'd see you next week, wave, wink, smile, and do it all over again. And you'd let me.

>>7
The BSDs are Linux with half of the features removed. They're good for OS hipster cred.

>>11
Not more or less. Security problems are usually PEBKAC errors.

>>4

Does Gentoo still have a Dev team?

>>12
interesting

Amiga OS

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>>7
This is a bit outdated, but it still outlines the core philsophical differences between at least FreeBSD and Linux based systems. http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php

I cannot say for NetBSD or OpenBSD. Though, I can tell you that Theo de Raadt is a crazier nutcase than Stallman is.

>>20
BSD is designed. Linux is grown. Perhaps that's the only succinct way to describe it, and possibly the most correct.
As much as that sounds like a derogatory comment in Linux' direction, I really have to agree. Linux development has been very... contextual for most of its lifetime. Miraculously, it has been done very well contrary to expectation.

>>21
I think he explains later how Linux development being like that is a positive, where most Linux users at first glance would think it was an insult. In short, I agree.

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