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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