I think the closest cousin to FreeBSD is Arch Linux. Superb, in-house maintained documentation, light, elegant out-of-the-box options and solutions and the ports/AUR power. Only, FreeBSD includes the whole 1.2GB ports' tree of 24k or so packages in the initial install. Of course, an rm -rf /use/ports is possible.

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sharts 9 hours ago | parent [-]

And void linux

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sivers 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes HUGE props to Void Linux. https://voidlinux.org/

Wonderfully under-rated. Robust as anything and SO FAST. It was my sole desktop OS for years, and while I’m dabbling with Debian right now, I miss Void the most. So lean and snappy.

Coming from OpenBSD and FreeBSD, Void Linux feels almost the same. Same rc init scripts and such.

	▲	tcmart14 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In case you were not aware, there is a large overlap between people who work/worked on NetBSD and OpenBSD that also work on Void Linux, which is why Void feels like that. Juan Pardines being an example of one individual.

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aap_ 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yup! I used to use FreeBSD on my thinkpad but as time went on that became less practical and I've been on Linux ever since. First arch and then void kinda filled the spot. void feels a bit like home.