I normally deal with Linux machines. Linux is what I know and it’s what I’ve been using since I was in college. A friend of mine has been coaxing me into trying out FreeBSD, and I decided to try it out and see what it’s like. Here’s some details about my experience and what I’ve learned.
Exactly what it says on the tin – and may I just say that the design and colour scheme of the website in question is extremely pleasant to the eyes.
Ha ha, what I coincidence, I was just setting up a home FreeBSD server!
I really enjoy the consistency of the system, although I am partial for linux as a unix desktop. For backend stuff, FreeBSD is really nifty once you get it set up just the way you like it.
When i was in my “OS experimentation” phase in my late teens, I settled on PC-BSD, purely because of the stability and consistency. Whereas Linux, at least at the time, was quite flakey and prone to breakages when updating, PC-BSD was always solid, and never left me in a state where my PC wouldn’t boot. Hands down, i’m now very much a BSD if i need a UNIX, though my daily driver is now MacOS.
Rust is in the pkg repo at least for FreeBSD:14:aarch64 as of now
https://www.freshports.org/lang/rust/