What is the right BSD for you?Should we have a look at that?There are three major BSDsfour if you include one that was forked from another.Let's take a look at those and find out which one would be the right one for you.I can't make that choice for you.I can tell you which one I use.I can't tell you which one you should use.You have to decide that yourself.So let's take a look at that.The major BSD versions and see what they're all about.So the first one, in fact, let's have a look at the Unix historyand find out which was first.Have a look here. What came first?There you go, FreeBSD one and NetBSD 0.8-1We're roughly about the same time.So let's talk about those first.Let's start with NetBSD and what that's all about.So here we go.NetBSD is an entirely free and open sourceUnix like operating system developed by an international community.It isn't a distribution or variant but has evolved over several decadesto be complete and unique operating system in the BSD family.You'll see that a lot.The BSD family, they're like brothers.All of them.They originally released in 93 and it was derivedfrom 4.4 BSD lite2. From University of California, Berkeley.Why use it?And there's the key reasons why.Security and memory hardening features.Now you'll see this on each different BSD by concentrating on different things.Now this one NetBSD, they concentrate onbeing available on almost any hardware you can throw.You could probably run this on a toaster.But so security and memory hardening features powerful package management,which is package source modern storage capabilities, including A.S file system, right frame LV M and of course thethe BSD file system, ARM support, virtualization, modernx86 hardware and a wide range of legacy hardware and ABIs.This is very true.It runs on so much that you wouldn't read about it.So if portability is an issue for youand you need to be able to run this on varying different hardwarein your home, your your office, your lab,wherever it may be, this might be a good one for you.Which one came next? FreeBSD.Now, I'm pretty sure the NetBSD became ever so slightly beforeFreeBSDI'm not 100% sure on that, but that's just my understanding.So what is FreeBSD?Well, you've heard me talk about FreeBSD fair amount on my videos.Over 100 of them are all about free BSD, but the majority of them all.And here we go focuses on features, speed and stability.There's not really much more you can say about FreeBSD, apart from jailsZFS and boot environments.Both of those linked together, they are very, very powerful.Makes a great internet or internet server,robust network services, advanced embeddedplatforms, loads and loads of packages.According to this, over 33,000.I'd be interested to see just how many is now.Let's see if we can see that 57,000 plus.So saying that there are 33,000is probably a little bit out of date.When was this last update?2021. Okay.So it's probably expanded since then.Easy to install and it is extremely simple to install and it's free.All of these are free.So it's not really an issue in this.But NetBSD is free.FreeBSD is freeSo let's move along to the next one.Now, as you see on my list, yeah, we're looking at this centre bit here.So BSD 4.4 light and lightrelease 2, stopped around about 95just just went the way of extinction.Unfortunately, it was folded into NetBSD and FreeBSD, they both ran with it.So what came next?OpenBSD in, what, 94, about a year later.Let's look at OpenBSD.Let’s look at all the stuff.There’s a lot here to mention.Suffice to say, OpenBSDreally concentrates on security and they do a very good job of it is greatfor running as things like routers and gateways and stuff like that.It's phenomenal for that.It can run as servers as wellJust as adept at that.I haven't used OpenBSD very much, so I can't really tell you much about it.All I can tell you is they concentrate on on security.And as far as I can remember, they've not had many major issueswith security, certainly much less than other basesand certainly much less than Linux or Windows or anything else.And of course, again, is free.Go back to our list.And if you look down, there's Dragonfly.DragonflyBSD.Now, that came along from a fork of FreeBSD for, I believe,and was first released in 2004.So let's have a quick look at them.So we're on six at the momentanyway.Here we go, Dragonfly includes many useful features that differentiate itfrom other operating systems in the same class.Most prominent one is hammer to our modern high performancefile system with instantand mount Rewritable snapshots, compression and dedupvirtual kernels provide the ability to run full blown kernelas a user process with a process of managing resourcesor for accelerated kernel development and debugging.So I guess what they're aiming for here is somethingthat is good for a file system, for file sharing, butstorage and for virtualization and looks likethey're they're aiming at development as well in thatdragonfly storage stack comprises robust, natively writtenAHCI and NVME drivesstable device names by identifiers.Yeah.So, question is which one is right for you?Again, I cannot tell you.What I can tell you is if you wanta general operating system FreeBSD is probably the whites go.It has its fingers and arms in many pies.NetBSD has its fingersin running on loads and loads of hardware, OpenBSD.They specialize in security and DragonflyBSDlooks like they're interested in storage.They will all do a good job.My personal choice would be FreeBSD.It's the one I'm used to.Maybe I should get used to the others.I've like I said, I've not really run the others.I think I'll give them a try in some upcoming videos.I'm quite interested to see howDragonflyBSD’s HAMMER2 works.Might be interesting.Yeah, might be very interesting.BLOCK Copy on my file system.Instant recovery on man.Instant snapshots, mounted snapshotswritable automatic snapshots can be enabled at system level.Periodic scripts default periodic also doesdaily bulk pass on the metadata to free spaceauto compression auto dedupfeature master slave mechanism?It's got a lot going for it.Yeah. I want to look into this one.We'll do thatmaybe next week, maybe the week after.Who knows? We'll give it a go.I'll be interesting to see what it's like with big storage.I don't have big storage,but I can virtualize that.It'd be interesting to run some performance on that.Some performance numbers.Anyway, I'm hopingthat you find this useful and helps you decide which BSD ismore appropriate for you.Like I say, free BSD is the general all rounder.NetBSD runs onloads and loads of hardware.OpenBSD is very security consciousand DragonflyBSD looks like theymight really want to get into the storage game. Sowhich one is right for you?I mean, any comments?Be interesting to know what you what you you run and which one you prefer.Don't forget to subscribeover 3000. This just incredible.Thank you. All.Check out the Discord server.Ask them guys what ones they're running.Get into some deep discussions that’ll be good to see.As always, take care and I'll see you next oneBye Bye.