> Normally when you install software on a Unix operating system you find and download the software.
According to the title, this is about choosing FreeBSD over Linux, not over Unix. That means the normal way to install is "<package_manager> install <package_name>". For the end user this is just like ports without having to compile anything. Once you don't have the package or the port available, you end up in the same situation: download the source and compile (which is more likely to work on Linux OOTB simply due to popularity).
> Poudriere is a utility for creating and testing FreeBSD packages. It utilize the FreeBSD jail system to set up isolated compilation environments.
In Debian-like systems you can use pbuilder in the same way. Each package is built in the same clean choot. I suspect RH has something similar?
> bhyve
They don't list anything technically better about bhyve. Why would I use this over xen or kvm?
> FreeBSD has three different firewalls built into the base system: PF, IPFW, and IPFILTER, also known as IPF.
Ok. Linux has iptables and now nftables/bpfilter. It's also got queuing, stateless and stateful features, protocol tracking, etc. CARP can be done in userland, or via other solutions like linux-ha/stonith. What are the reasons to choose FreeBSD here? (also, mentioning 3 firewalls after being excited about well-designed system that just comes together rather than being glued together from third-party software just sounds weird)
> BSD init
They haven't listed what's actually technically better about it than in systemd. (not subjectively)
> Jails
Jails as described in the article, have the same features as lxc. Lxd provides zfs-as-a-backing-store option as well.
> FreeBSD has over five hundred system variables that can be read and set using the sysctl utility.
Ok. On my Fedora system "sysctl -a | wc -l" gives 2093.
> For example, on top of the geom_mirror module an encryption module can be added, such as geom_eli to provide a mirrored and encrypted volume.
So how is it better than lvm with its layers dm-raid and dm-crypt?
I get that people are excited about FreeBSD and I'd love to learn what are the technically better sides of it. But this article really doesn't list that many.