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282 points paulnpace | 3 comments | 22 Oct 25 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.591s | source
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liendolucas ◴[22 Oct 25 08:41 UTC] No.45666352[source]▶
What truly suprises me about BSDs is their simplicity and low footprint, OpenBSD being gold standard.

I've been playing with `byve` the last two weeks (I highly recommend vermaden's blog for anyone interested in BSDs and obviously the handbooks of each project) and I'm seriously thinking not doing a dual boot Linux install again. On my old x230 (which is running FreeBSD) I will be installing OpenBSD just to become more familiar with it.

I still don't get why just after installing Debian `top` shows me around 200 proceses. BSDs? Under 20. Other thing that pisses me off is for example how polluted (at least on Ubuntu) mountpoints are. Package management is also fragmented on Linux, while on BSDs is either a flavour of `pkg` or ports.

Perhaps I should still try more minimalistic Linux distributions, just don't know which are good candidates

Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and still recommend it heavily to non-tech people around me but when you taste a BSD is hard to go back.

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sigio ◴[22 Oct 25 09:15 UTC] No.45666588[source]▶
Top on linux shows kernel threads (all the processes in square brackets), on BSD it doesn't show these afaik. A fresh debian install only lists a handfull of processes (all the expected ones, ssh, systemd, ntp, gettys etc) besides the 200+ kernel-threads.
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1. liendolucas ◴[22 Oct 25 09:31 UTC] No.45666684[source]▶
Uh, ok then. I always thought that those were actually real kernel processes. What's the use of having top report those kernel threads? Is it possible to renice them?
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2. saagarjha ◴[22 Oct 25 09:54 UTC] No.45666854[source]▶
Linux views them all as tasks, and yes you can (although I don't know if top does that).
3. BSDobelix ◴[22 Oct 25 10:14 UTC] No.45666983[source]▶
>What's the use of having top report those kernel threads?

Just a different "flavor"-default-setting of top, there's not much more behind it.