Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
That link has been posted here many times already.<p>I use FreeBSD as a daily driver on my desktop. Very happy with it. My reasons to choose it were more that I feel like Linux has become a toy of big tech. If you look at the kernel contributions, most of them are from people working for all the big names. Linux has become Big Business and each company is trying to safeguard their interests in it. Linus is still in charge of the kernel officially but all the steering groups are dominated by big tech. Look at the Linux Foundation for instance: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;board-of-directors&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;board-of-directors&#x2F;</a> . These are not the kind of people you&#x27;d expect to lead &#x27;free software&#x27;, these are all boardroom types. Maybe Linux has outgrown the beardy hacker culture but I have not :P<p>Of course, Linux is not much worse for it... Yet. I think this is for 2 reasons: Linus&#x27; benevolent dictatorship, and the fact that they won&#x27;t be able to agree on much given that these guys are all competitors. But in the long term I&#x27;m sure this will take its toll. For example, would these guys ever have approved the GPL-3? Everyone in business is pretty universally against it.<p>And in fact it&#x27;s the very BSD license that makes big business shun FreeBSD. Which I think is a good thing. FreeBSD still feels like a grassroots development and as such I feel more in control. The excellent and consistent documentation and friendly community is another plus for me. And the combination of stable OS with rolling third-party software (but this is something that was also mentioned in the article). ZFS on Root is another one (though Ubuntu is now catching up to that).