31 Jan
2021
31 Jan
'21
6:23 p.m.
On 30/01/2021 23:54, Larry McVoy wrote:
You like FreeBSD, cool, it's fine. Nobody will
ever know because nobody
is going to put up with a 1990's era installer. Nobody. It's 2020, shit
is just supposed to work, it's supposed do so in a graphical environment
let works with or without a mouse. Anyone who doesn't see that isn't
going to get any market share.
It's "horses for courses". I run a mix of FreeBSD and Linux servers. As
they're headless, the last thing I want is X on there. Ideally, I'd
strip out the automount crap as well, to say nothing of the horror that
is systemd. But yeah, those people with desktops want a simple GUI
install and they want their USB stick to appear as a "folder". I run
Ubuntu on my desktop for vaguely those reasons (and Dropbox!).
I think the biggest threat to FreeBSD is docker/k8s and things like
libvirt. Unfortunately, most open source (and closed source) software
runs de facto on Linux (if it runs on Unix-esque systems), and the ports
to FreeBSD are slow in coming. Last time I looked, there was no native
Dropbox client.
As a server though, if you don't need to use it as a hypervisor or a
container system, it gets my vote. But again it's down to preference.
Linux has the breeze now, and is streaking ahead of the *BSDs. Sad, but
true.
- Der
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Dermot Tynan
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