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Many of us work with Linux alongside BSD in production, at home, or both.

This is the place to discuss Linux distributions, tools, kernel news, or anything Linux-related - especially if you're coming from Linux and curious about BSD, or running both.

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SmartOS brings the full power of illumos to hypervisor and container workloads. Discuss installations, vmadm, imgadm, Triton, or just share how you're using SmartOS to quietly run circles around the competition.

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Tribblix takes illumos in its own direction with a unique packaging system and a minimalist philosophy. If you run it, you already know why.
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Discuss anything related to OpenBSD here: pf, pledge, unveil, httpd, relayd, installations, hardware support, or just why you chose OpenBSD and never looked back.

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