{"id":452,"date":"2019-06-22T04:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T08:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=452"},"modified":"2019-06-22T04:01:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T08:01:51","slug":"freebsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/22\/freebsd\/","title":{"rendered":"FreeBSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a long-time Linux user and ardent fan of Debian GNU\/Linux, I find myself more and more in a situation where I favor a BSD-style Unix over Linux.<\/p>\n<p>My first real contact with FreeBSD was through the now sadly defunct Debian GNU\/kfreebsd distribution, the next logical step was to set up a FreeBSD workstation (with KDE) and now there&#8217;s no turning back. One of the main benefits of using Linux over Windows was always&nbsp; to have fine granular control of all the processes and steps &#8211; systemd is way too much Windows-like for my taste. Nothing against Windows &#8211; I do all my daily office work on Microsoft Windows and Office, but on my servers and workstations I want a shell prompt and full control.<\/p>\n<p>I still run Debian on my GCP cloud servers, for my next server at home I&#8217;ve settled on FreeBSD though. <\/p>\n<p>I did have a look at the possibility to replace systemd with SysV-init on Debian, I also looked at Devuan, but in the end the simplicity and elegance of FreeBSD won me over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/daemon-phk.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"322\" height=\"351\" title=\"daemon-phk\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"daemon-phk\" src=\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/daemon-phk_thumb.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(https:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/art.html)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a long-time Linux user and ardent fan of Debian GNU\/Linux, I find myself more and more in a situation where I favor a BSD-style Unix over Linux. My first real contact with FreeBSD was through the now sadly defunct Debian GNU\/kfreebsd distribution, the next logical step was to set up a FreeBSD workstation (with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/22\/freebsd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FreeBSD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloudnative","category-cologne","category-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/salXpA-freebsd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}