Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by aniviacat 34 days ago
I've tried a few distros in the past and have now settled (on NixOS for servers and tinkering, and Fedora for just-working). But I've never tried a BSD and would also be curious how using one would turn out.

Maybe getting into FreeBSD for a bit would be a fun little project.
1 comments
mghackerlady 34 days ago
FreeBSD is infinitely better than any flavour of Linux if you can do what you need to on it. Great performance, superb documentation, the software just works for the most part (an update in the libc isn't going to break any of the base packages, for example). It takes a while to get it set up, and it can be picky about hardware, but I totally recommend
link
gatane 33 days ago
The BSDs still cannot run docker
link
lproven 33 days ago
No, because Docker is a tool for running Linux containers.

You can use the Linuxulator to run Linux binaries on FreeBSD, including entire distro userlands in Jails. You can use Podman to build and manage OCI containers with Docker-compatible commands.

In other words: you as making the classic XY mistake.

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem

link
mghackerlady 33 days ago
FreeBSD has jails and a great hypervisor. Also it can do podman iirc
link