What’s the point of it?
OpenBSD = Security
FreeBSD = The main UNIX-like
NetBSD = ???
Based on the name of have assumed it’s be used in things like network appliances but in 20 years I’ve never seen a single device use it.
There’s no specific point in any of *BSD. They all are general purpose OSes. NetBSD forked from FreeBSD, OpenBSD forked from NetBSD. Conflicts between developers were main reasons for that.
Somewhat confused this is in a linux community when none of these OS are linux based. Are we lacking on BSD communities?
We don’t have BSD communities and even if we did they probably wouldn’t be big enough to get a decent answer.
So I asked here cos there’s a high chance that some Linux users will also know something about *BSD.
You’d probably get better conversations at selfhosted I know some folks there run *bsd network appliances. NASs, firewalls, etc.
That doesn’t mean we want it here. Missing the community you are looking for? Create it.
I think the point is network appliances but it seems mainly used by hobbyists from what I’ve seen.
And then you have NomadBSD if you need an OS in a usb stick :)
