@syndikalista FreeBSD has its own kernel and is developed as an integrated system. If you look in their repos the kernel and the basic user-land software are developed in the same source tree. This contrasts with Linux distributions, which are generally combinations of software developed by several separate projects. FreeBSD also has roots in the original Unix, though all of that code has since been replaced. The ports system is pretty cool, but you can get a somewhat similar experience with pkgsrc - they both like you build a crap-ton of software from source. http://freshports.org will give you a better idea of how much there is. FreeBSD has binary packages as well. Idk if Arch still has it, but BSD is where the whole rc.conf as a system config file originated from also. FreeBSD is licensed under one BSD licenses, so not copy-left. But then Arch doesn't have much of a commitment to free software either. Source: I used FreeBSD as a desktop for a few years, the docs in BSD are top-notch too.