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From: Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid>
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On 12/06/2025 11:58, Borax Man wrote:
> I've installed FreeBSD in a virtual machine, and it has the simplicity
> that used to be in Linux

I was running home desktops with windows, and made a server with freebsd 
- it was basically the first in the list of "search for free unix os" 
that came up. That was decades ago. Serendipity rules: it's been pretty 
reliable(*) and, as you say, remains (for the time being) fairly easy to 
configure.

I went with desktop linux when we ditched windows purely because the 
fbsd desktop wasn't up to par at the time. That seems to have changed 
though.

*But* as I noted fbsd h/w support is a little hit-and-miss. My family 
server runs on a pi4 - I need the speed of a pi5 now, but fbsd doesn't 
yet support it, so I'm looking at migrating that to raspbian. But 
everything does seem that bit harder than on freebsd, especially in the 
firewall department.


(*) It was running recently for well over 400 days solid. But I needed 
to turn the mains power off :-{ )


-- 
Mike Scott
Harlow, England