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graemep parent
> A big part of the difference is that the BSDs are designed by a governing committee. They usually don't have 15 different solutions for the same problem, but instead 2-3 solutions that work well.

The right comparison is not between a particular BSD and Linux, its between a particular BSD and a Linux distro.

jeltz
I feel the BSDs are much more different from each other than the average Linux distros are.
graemep OP
Average/most popular distros, maybe.

The full range of distros are very different from each other. Consider Void, Alpine, Gentoo, Chimera, NixOS.....

Different C libraries, init systems, different default command line utilities....

anthk
That's nothing. Alpine can run Glibc binaries with compat libraries.

Try running a FreeBSD binary under OpenBSD.

graemep OP
But only with compat libraries. Similarly FreeBSD can provide Linux compatility. Wine lets you run Windows binaries on multiple OSes.
anthk
You can't run neither FreeBSD nor NetBSD binaries under OpenBSD.

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