The BSDs are *awesome* operating systems. #FreeBSD is a high performance general purpose OS. It is modern #Unix. #NetBSD is for portability, it supports nearly every CPU architecture under the sun. #OpenBSD is security-focused. #GhostBSD is a FreeBSD fork focused on the desktop.

Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, which I will enthusiastically share. It is unquestionably a solid server OS. As a desktop OS, it works quite well. It definitely does not feel like "Linux from 2004." The major desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME #XFCE are all supported and #nvidia releases drivers for the OS too. Modern hardware is supported. For *cutting edge hardware*, #Linux may be the better bet here. It's a little slower to adopt cutting edge gear because it is focused on stability and elegant solutions, not trend-chasing.

FreeBSD is an excellent OS to learn. It runs beautifully and it's more coherent and better designed. Documentation is *solid*.

Edit: Corrected errors. GhostBSD, not DragonflyBSD. Thanks @aru

Happy to see so many successfully upgraded #BastilleBSD installations. For those still pending, here are some general steps.

> bastille bootstrap 15.0-RELEASE
> bastille etcupdate bootstrap 15.0-RELEASE
> bastille upgrade TARGET 15.0-RELEASE
> bastille etcupdate TARGET [diff|resolve|update] 15.0-RELEASE

Happy upgrading!

#FreeBSD

Okay, all my FreeBSD servers are upgraded to 15.0

I had the same hiccup on all of them: my customized pkg config, to get daily builds and not quarterly, broke everything because the names have changed.

Once I figured that out, and changed the contents of /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf to:

FreeBSD-ports: {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest"
}

, packages started working again and we're up and running again.

#FreeBSD