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by alberth 812 days ago
That's correct for all BSD's, not just OpenBSD.

BSD = kernel + userland
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beanjuiceII 812 days ago
Yep you can pick from any distro you want.. freebsd openbsd netbsd pcbsd dragonflybsd etc etc etc each special petals like lisp languages or something
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lproven 809 days ago
PC-BSD is long dead.

It's much simpler than you represent.

There are only 4 real trees here:

* FreeBSD

* NetBSD

* OpenBSD

* Dragonfly BSD

In very approximate order, and I suspect that there are (wild approximation) half as many users for each step down the list.

One estimate I've seen is that there are ~7K users of openBSD, in total, worldwide.

There are a few distros of FreeBSD. None of the others have distros, AFAIK. PC-BSD was a FreeBSD distro. iXsystems acquired it, turned it into TrueOS, and then killed it 4Y ago.

https://www.truenas.com/trueos-discontinuation/

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lenerdenator 812 days ago
I might throw it on a VM soon.

Maybe it'll finally scratch the ultimate nerdy OS itch.

Probably not though.

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nutrie 811 days ago
Having had some experience with FreeBSD, I'd pick BSD over Linux any day, the primary reason being its unique consistency, which is after a few days a breeze of fresh air even to a newbie. The vast majority of software that runs on Linux is available for BSD as well. Sadly, hardware support is not that great.
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