Linux gets a lot of love there on Fedi, so I think it would be cool if BSD would get some of it too.

For those unaware it’s a Unix-like operation system, one of they key differences from Linux is a more permissive license, so PlayStation 4 or MacOS are originally based on it.

There’s a list of existing communities:

Apparently, there’s also a Lemmy instance dedicated to BSD — https://blendit.bsd.cafe/

Note: No .ml communities, as my instance is defederated from them.

  • bluGill@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    It is subtly different - generally enough to by annoying, but not actually significant (it is annoying to use zfs on linux but not really hard). There are sometimes advantages and disadvantages, but they are often obscure things that probably won’t matter to you (just like many people didn’t notice the switch from X to Wayland, or whatever init to systemd - in the end things are annoyingly different but it isn’t significant). Even where I can list something, in a few years there will be a new version and that would have changed.

    The one consistent difference is BSD is a system which means tools like ifconfig are built in thus still works the way they did in 1995 - linux has gone through several iterations of replacement because they needed something that wasn’t in the default tool. OTOH, if you need one of those new features that caused linux to change in the first place you have to read the manual page either way as it will be a new option. Again, this is annoying, but not significant.

    there are several tools which have different options in BSD vs GNU (though you don’t have to use the GNU versions on linux). Again, annoying.