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Personal blog · over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rantssystemsprogramming
Hi is a personal blog at over-yonder.net about systems and programming. Since 2009, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “BSD vs. Linux (2005)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link the 'BSD for Linux Users' rant series on over-yonder.net to explain how BSD systems differ from Linux. The site also has a resume generator and other rants.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- BSD vs. Linux (2005)13 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2010-11-26
- BSD for Linux Users8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-01-16
- BSD For Linux Users5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-07-07
What Hacker News says?
I remember checking out http://over-yonder.net/ after being linked from Slashdot circa 2006. I always have a soft spot for the "Homepage" link on Slashdot. I was impressed with his resume generator at the time: https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/resume
Comment linking /~fullermd/resume
on “BSD vs. Linux (2005)”Submitted BSD vs. Linux (2005) as a story · 457 points
HN discussionOne can't remove 'Apple apps' because Apple follows the BSD logic: https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
on “The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra”Submitted BSD For Linux Users: Intro as a story · 100 points
HN discussionThis is a classic that may help you understand better why some people choose BSDs: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01 Also, there are still new things being invented for BSDs (and Illumos) that aren't available in Linux. E.g. FreeBSD has Jails and Illumos has Zones which provide a complete solution for "containers" which are put together from different components in Linux which overall may not b…
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
on “OpenBSD 6.7”Submitted BSD vs. Linux as a story · 94 points
HN discussionThis topic has beaten to death, I will point you to this resource since it is an excellent exposition of both GNU/Linux's and FreeBSD's strengths: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
on “FreeBSD/EC2 lives”Submitted BSD For Linux Users as a story · 79 points
HN discussionreading this [ http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4lin... ] might give you a good understanding of *BSDs -- written specifically for linux users ;)
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php
on “Ask HN: I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs”Submitted BSD vs. Linux as a story · 66 points
HN discussionYes, I'm using FreeBSD on my netbook. I tried some Linux distros there, but they were too slow. My netbook came with Fedora, where yum was terribly lagging, it was taking even 40minutes to upgrade 20pacakges (what happened weekly), I tried Debian with LXDE, it was faster, but I wasn't able to watch youtube, video was lagging on 460p. GF was using it as portable PC to listen to podcasts etc, but starting any applicat…
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
on “FreeBSD 10.3”Submitted BSD for Linux Users (2005) as a story · 43 points
HN discussionhttps://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
on “An Introduction to OpenBSD [video]”Submitted BSD for Linux Users – A biased comparison as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt always felt to me like when people use words like "intuitiveness" or "usability", they're all pointing at slightly different things. Matt Fuller's partitioning of user-friendliness into "easy to use", "easy to learn", and "easy to use without learning"[0] feels like it might be easier to set objective criteria for. For your example, you might say functional programming tends to be easy to use, but hard to learn a…
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/userfriendly/2
on “The design side of programming language design”Submitted BSD for Linux Users as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
on “The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraising goal by 50%”Submitted BSD for Linux Users as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
on “The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraising goal by 50%”Submitted BSD for Linux Users: Intro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor most simple servers/projects I use Debian/some sort of linux, so I'm pretty unknowledgeable but curious about the BSD side of things. What are the advantages/differences of using bsd over any other linux distro? Edit: For anyone interested, I actually Googled the question and found a pretty interesting article: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
on “FreeBSD 9.1 Release Announcement”Submitted BSD vs. Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat is an interpretation at odds with UNIX history, and basically only applicable to Linux, which is the exception to the rule. I suggest reading this article, it's written for FreeBSD but applies very similarly to Solaris etc. https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/03
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/03
on “The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix (2011)”Submitted Are you user friendly? (old) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFrom a technical standpoint, Linux is a System V-style Unix and BSD is (unsurprisingly) a Berkeley-style Unix. One of the most striking differences (which he didn't mention) is the init system - SysV uses /etc/init.d/, while BSD uses /etc/rc.conf and the like. Also, see the "hier" (filesystem layout) man pages for FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier ) and OpenBSD ( http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/…
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/11
on “BSD For Linux Users: Intro”Submitted Dear webdevs: Good web design Nostalgia. Take note as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI will say something that is completely incorrect as facts, but helpful as a thought technology: Choosing BSD over Linux is like choosing Slackware over Elementary. The differences are there, but they're very niche and subtle in the technical side and the philosophical side. If you've never used a BSD, you can safely think of it as just another linux distro, and use the same reasoning you'd use to choose your favori…
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
on “Bring Your Custom Image to DigitalOcean”Submitted Quick Introduction to Unix, Linux, BSD as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are a lot of reasons. The ports system has already been mentioned, and some people really like ZFS. More to the point, though, licensing differences ensure that more software (like ZFS) is legally compatible with FreeBSD than with any typical Linux+GNU distribution. It has also been mentioned that FreeBSD is "a sysadmin's dream". A big part of the reason for this is its userland. The truth of the matter is tha…
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php
on “FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux Users”The best I know, a bit lengthy though: https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
Comment linking /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
on “Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD (2017) [pdf]”
