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why is linux more popular than bsd?

Hi,
Why is linux far more popular than freebsd,netbsd?

Re: why is linux more popular than bsd?

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drivers, hw support

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Blue Screen of Death, links to satanism (demon logo)?  ;D

Re: why is linux more popular than bsd?

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Partly the License. The BSD License allows you to take the code, modify it,  then publish the binaries without providing the source code.  Lots of developers didn't / don't like that concept.

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IMHO because it found itself in the right place at the right time. Same kind of questions could be raised about why PHP became more popular than Perl or why Wordpress is the most popular CMS in the world, even tho it's crap. It's mostly a matter of circumstances, timing and RNG.

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bsd had legal issues that prevented it from devolping and meanwhile Linus Torvalds came along with his little side project.  There should be a video about it in off topic that i had posted previously.
Cat Herders of Linux

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i wanted to try bsd but it lacks hw support for many devices and i also didn't liked the demon logo bsd have.
 

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Quote from: richie – on
i wanted to try bsd but it lacks hw support for many devices and i also didn't liked the demon logo bsd have.

The “demon” actually refers to something called a daemon, which is a computer program that runs waiting for something to happen (such as a connection from the internet for a web page). The trident refers to the “forking” of processes in the computer.

More info here

Re: why is linux more popular than bsd?

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yup.  still looks like a devil, albeit a cartoonish one.

PC BSD had great support back in the day and better steam support than bsd now has.  not sure what changed?  maybe proton borked it up for bsd.  if you're not gaming and running older hardware, free bsd is still systemd free but not if the folks at chimera get their way.
Cat Herders of Linux

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Quote from: tintin – on
Quote from: cat herders of linux – on
https://youtu.be/NF9cus43RMY?si=TeIVDrLC9m2QpC3k
I had already seen this interesting video.
But Google also suggests this one which is worth watching:
https://youtu.be/tuI2wX3ol2o
Yah thats pretty good too i think
Cat Herders of Linux

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Quote from: cat herders of linux – on
yup.  still looks like a devil, albeit a cartoonish one.
 but not if the folks at chimera get their way.

Chimera Linux has always been and will be Linux because it uses a linux kernel ...

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still looks like a devil

Then Linux can be accused of Satanism because it uses Daemon concepts ...

Re: why is linux more popular than bsd?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)

the word is from Greek mythology, and has nothing to do with Christianity or post Christian Satanism.

I like how BSD uses a literal devil and Linux gets hit for using demons...

Not that facts ever stopped Christians...

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It's just FreeBSD that has a demon logo.
OpenBSD and NetBSD do not have it for example.