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GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've never used any BSDs directly, only in the shape of opnSense, but as a fan of Gentoo, which uses portage, that, in turnm is heavily inspired by the ports system, I should probably give one of them a go at some point.

My biggest deterrent so far has been lower performance compared to linux. I objectively understand it's imperceptible in every day use, but something at the back of my head has been holding me back.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OOB, FreeBSD will always be slower. You need to compile a custom kernel using only the hardware on your system. After that, it exceeds Linux perf.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that still true comparing to a custom kernel for linux?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If not better, equal. But without doing this, the BSD kernel is bloated.