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  5. FreeBSD vs Wine

FreeBSD vs Wine

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Overview

FreeBSD
FreeBSD
Stacks250
Followers196
Votes28
Wine
Wine
Stacks35
Followers38
Votes0
GitHub Stars3.7K
Forks1.2K

FreeBSD vs Wine: What are the differences?

Developers describe FreeBSD as "An operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms". An operating system for a variety of platforms which focuses on features, speed, and stability. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large community. On the other hand, Wine is detailed as "A compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems". It is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow computer programs developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.

FreeBSD and Wine can be categorized as "Operating Systems" tools.

Some of the features offered by FreeBSD are:

  • KMS And New drm2 Video Drivers
  • Capsicum Enabled By Default
  • New Binary Packaging System

On the other hand, Wine provides the following key features:

  • X11-based graphics allows remote display to any X terminal
  • MacOS and Android based graphics support
  • X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) Fonts

FreeBSD and Wine are both open source tools. FreeBSD with 4.44K GitHub stars and 1.74K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Wine with 953 GitHub stars and 526 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

FreeBSD
FreeBSD
Wine
Wine

An operating system for a variety of platforms which focuses on features, speed, and stability. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large community.

It is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow computer programs developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.

KMS And New drm2 Video Drivers; Capsicum Enabled By Default; New Binary Packaging System; Unmapped I/O
X11-based graphics allows remote display to any X terminal; MacOS and Android based graphics support; X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) Fonts; Support for DirectX based games and applications (Direct3D support up to DX11); Support for OpenGL based games and applications
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
3.7K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
1.2K
Stacks
250
Stacks
35
Followers
196
Followers
38
Votes
28
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 8
    Excellent as Server
  • 6
    Very Stable
  • 4
    Helpful community
  • 2
    Free to use
  • 2
    Ports and packages system is mature and well-supported
Cons
  • 1
    Slower to adopt non-server hardware than Linux
  • 1
    Poor support for laptops, especially wireless cards
No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available
Linux
Linux
macOS
macOS
Windows
Windows
Bugzilla
Bugzilla

What are some alternatives to FreeBSD, Wine?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Debian

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Arch Linux

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Fedora

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

Linux Mint

Linux Mint

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

CentOS

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

Linux

Linux

A clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

CoreOS

CoreOS

It is designed for security, consistency, and reliability. Instead of installing packages via yum or apt, it uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many machines.

Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux

It is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

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