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

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