[Yung Lean]

With out doubt FreeBSD. Simple; Stable. Been running it for about 2 years now, by far the longest time I've stuck to one OS. Usually disliked numerous things in the first 6 months that had something to do with the OS. Such as Gentoo's emerge in Python is for one something I hate, Rolling-release & bleeding edge is annoying for me and so on. Things that are a part of the systems philosophy in one way or another. FreeBSD suits me perfectly in regards of everything, and I love it.

Whats so special about FreeBSD ? Never tried it but it is different from other linux distros?

[Dragoonyan]

Windows!
I couldn't resist i'm sorry

[Loki123]

Whats so special about FreeBSD ? Never tried it but it is different from other linux distros?

FreeBSD isn't a Linux distribution. And yes it is different.

The first thing is the license, it gives the people that use your code much more freedom. I.e, it can be used in proprietary code and has been done, such as the whole TCP/IP stack in windows comes from FreeBSD. Yes, I'm not even close to being joking. BSD doesn't require people that modify your code to give you those changes as the GPLv3 does. Many differences in those two licenses. And in my opinion BSD license is much better.

The development process is different, GNU/Linux is an operating system that is built with the idea that it is good to develop the core system in individual groups. So, all of those packages that actually make up your system are developed by individual teams that don't actually have anything to do with each other. There isn't one team that oversees all of them or anything like that, GNU/Linux is an operating system that is just a collection of applications that are developed individually, everything from the core system. Now, Linus Torvalds said it at some Q&A that they have left numerous of bugs in the kernel they know about, but couldn't fix at the time because another application, such as glibc, took advantage of that bug. This is a flaw that shouldn't happen.

Linux is just the kernel, the user land is then developed in separate packages. While FreeBSD is the whole operating system. The FreeBSD project maintains and develops the whole system, from the kernel to the user land applications in the base system. This means that there is someone that maintains the whole system. Which leads to a better development process for everyone involved in the base system development and possibly fewer bugs such as the one I described earlier.

There are probably some other differences but mainly these two.

[Mariox34]

win 7 is prob my favorite tried using debian but can't get it to work any ideas?

[Skullmeat]

win 7 is prob my favorite tried using debian but can't get it to work any ideas?

Make a thread about it in operating systems. There's plenty of Linux users here that would help you.
https://www.sinister.ly/Forum-Operating-Systems

[BORW3]

After going from Ubuntu to Xubuntu to Lubuntu to Linux Mint from Windows 7, I eventually ended back at Windows 7. Even if I don't like it, it's the only OS majority people use and to develop for it would mean being good with it....so.. Untill Linux community decides on one OS to be its flagship and set standards, then I will come back, right now it seem I am stuck with Windows :-(

[Pirate]

I am now using Windows 10 as it turned out the Windows 7 disk I bought on Amazon was counter fiet and I could get a Windows 10 upgrade free

[pvnk]

FreeBSD isn't a Linux distribution. And yes it is different.

The first thing is the license, it gives the people that use your code much more freedom. I.e, it can be used in proprietary code and has been done, such as the whole TCP/IP stack in windows comes from FreeBSD. Yes, I'm not even close to being joking. BSD doesn't require people that modify your code to give you those changes as the GPLv3 does. Many differences in those two licenses. And in my opinion BSD license is much better.

The development process is different, GNU/Linux is an operating system that is built with the idea that it is good to develop the core system in individual groups. So, all of those packages that actually make up your system are developed by individual teams that don't actually have anything to do with each other. There isn't one team that oversees all of them or anything like that, GNU/Linux is an operating system that is just a collection of applications that are developed individually, everything from the core system. Now, Linus Torvalds said it at some Q&A that they have left numerous of bugs in the kernel they know about, but couldn't fix at the time because another application, such as glibc, took advantage of that bug. This is a flaw that shouldn't happen.

Linux is just the kernel, the user land is then developed in separate packages. While FreeBSD is the whole operating system. The FreeBSD project maintains and develops the whole system, from the kernel to the user land applications in the base system. This means that there is someone that maintains the whole system. Which leads to a better development process for everyone involved in the base system development and possibly fewer bugs such as the one I described earlier.

There are probably some other differences but mainly these two.

Really good read.

[Dismas]

Debian. Windows is bad, but I still use it.

Spoiler:

Muh vidya gaymes.

[pvnk]

Debian. Windows is bad, but I still use it.

Spoiler:

Muh vidya gaymes.

Are you on Windows 10 sir? I have to know.