Shownotes for episode 9, published Wednesday, 3 Mar 2020
In this episode of Syscast, I talk to Jan-Piet Mens to discuss the differences between Linux and BSD systems.
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Show topics
We discuss:
- The differences between Linux & BSD in user-land
- Why did Linux become more popular than BSD?
- How systemd drove Jan-Piet to BSD 😉
- The differences of distributions vs. operating systems
- FreeBSD vs OpenBSD vs NetBSD
- Package managers in BSD
- Creating packages for BSD
- “pkg” vs “ports” in BSD
- Filesystem differences between Linux & BSD
- Managing Linux vs BSD with Ansible
Additional shownotes
- Jan-Piet’s site: jpmens.net
- Jan-Piet on Twitter: @jpmens
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