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I run Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and SmartOS/illumos in various capacities personal and professional.

Each has its own strengths, but I choose FreeBSD for home servers (shared file/media server. and network gateway), for a few specific reasons:

  - ZFS (on root, fully integrated tooling for jails, etc)
  - More consistency/less churn in base system (great for set-and-forget systems)
  - Ports/pkg (still better than any Linux pkg manager)


Can you enumerate why ports/pkg is better than any package manager on Linux?


The first two are the exact reason I run FreeBSD on my home servers, too.




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