Hacker News with Generative AI: BSD

The Main Differences Between OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD (unixdigest.com)
People who consider trying out one of the different BSD variants, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD or DragonFly BSD, often ask about the main differences between the four projects. In this article I am going to address that issue.

Operating Systems, BSD, Linux

4 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 0 comments

InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux (github.com/InitWare)
The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. Its main component is a service management ("init") system.

Operating Systems, Linux, BSD, System Administration, Software

167 points by sunshine-o 23 days ago | 117 comments

Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025 (dragas.net)
This is the text underlying my presentation at OSDay 2025, held on 21 March 2025 in Florence, Italy. There was limited time, so I couldn't go into much detail and had to keep things more general and structured than usual. You can watch the video of my talk on YouTube.

Operating Systems, BSD, Technology, Presentations, Conferences

9 points by signa11 33 days ago | 5 comments

Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025 (dragas.net)
This is the text underlying my presentation at OSDay 2025, held on 21 March 2025 in Florence, Italy. There was limited time, so I couldn't go into much detail and had to keep things more general and structured than usual. Still, you can watch the video of my talk on YouTube.

Operating Systems, BSD, Conferences, Presentations

10 points by enz 34 days ago | 1 comments

Exploring the Hybrid Debian GNU/KFreeBSD Distribution (linuxjournal.com)
For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world.

Operating Systems, Linux, BSD, Unix

11 points by dxs 49 days ago | 1 comments

The BSD Daemon [video] (youtube.com)

Operating Systems, BSD, Video

4 points by rodrigo975 143 days ago | 0 comments

Wine 9.22 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS (winehq.org)

Wine, Operating Systems, Linux, macOS, BSD

4 points by neustradamus 154 days ago | 1 comments

Pleasant Debugging with GDB and DDD (begriffs.com)
GDB is an old and ubiquitous debugger for Linux and BSD systems that has extensive language, processor, and binary format support. Its interface is a little cryptic, but learning GDB pays off.

Debugging, Linux, BSD, Tools

102 points by mariuz 162 days ago | 6 comments

HardenedBSD Feature Comparison with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD (hardenedbsd.org)

Operating Systems, Security, BSD, Comparison

99 points by transpute 173 days ago | 77 comments

Wine 9.20 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS (winehq.org)

Wine, Linux, macOS, BSD, Solaris, Software, Open Source

7 points by neustradamus 186 days ago | 0 comments

Secure CGI Applications in C on BSD (2016) (kristaps.bsd.lv)
Equip you with sufficient knowledge to build a (simple) secure web application. In C. On a BSD operating system.

Security, Web Development, C Programming, BSD

14 points by udev4096 193 days ago | 2 comments

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good (theregister.com)
EuroBSDcon 2024 One of Stefano Marinelli's NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be.

Operating Systems, BSD, Linux, Unix

49 points by rodrigo975 199 days ago | 26 comments

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good (theregister.com)
EuroBSDcon 2024 One of Stefano Marinelli's NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be.

Operating Systems, BSD, Linux

87 points by dazzawazza 200 days ago | 88 comments

EuroBSDcon 2024: Some notes after the conference (netbsd.org)
I have not been at EuroBSDCon for a while, unfortunately! My last EuroBSDCon was EuroBSDcon 2017 in Paris, France (and I have also blogged about it)!

Operating Systems, Conferences, BSD

94 points by jaypatelani 201 days ago | 3 comments

Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs (dragas.net)
“I’m Stefano Marinelli, I solve problems.”

Operating Systems, Linux, BSD

334 points by msangi 205 days ago | 224 comments

BSD Jumpstart – A Comprehensive Guide to *BSD's (bsdjumpstart.org)

BSD, Operating Systems, Guides

8 points by signa11 267 days ago | 1 comments

Evolving the BSD Cafe Network Setup: From Bridging to Routing with FreeBSD (dragas.net)

Networking, FreeBSD, Operating Systems, BSD, Network Setup

9 points by speckx 268 days ago | 0 comments

CheriBSD (cheribsd.org)