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[citation needed] (not in a snarky way, I want the story!)

not at all weird for him

Yes! It was so huge in the ISP space back then because trying to run something like NNTP on Linux at the time was just not a great experience for customers. Indy ISPs aren't really…

And I think the userland got a bit of a refresh from current FreeBSD when OS-X came out.

With heavy use in Netflix's CDN resulting in something like more than 15% of internet traffic being delivered by FreeBSD, that's some kind of success I imagine.

monoculture is bad, especially for security

I thought 3.x was the bumpy one (first SMP, IIRC).

I'm not a security guy, but monoculture always scared the shit out of me.

(on linux)

If anyone wants to learn (as opposed to arguing), the papers on Netflix's TLS offloading work are a fun read. And say what you will, something like 20% of all internet traffic has …

This is nonsense. Please educate yourself a bit on systems automation in general if you think this is the case.

The unsaid thing here is Linux is largely not used by sysadmin/unix types. Devops has driven this bloat so that people new to the field can just not have to learn any fundamentals …

If your BSD init script is 500 lines long, you've done something horribly wrong.

And they say BSD users have attitude issues, lol.

Yeah, it's a weird argument. I've used vnet, but rarely need it. I bind my jails to their own IPs and that's that. That has been available from the very early days of jails. Again,…

In FreeBSD see the "-J" and "-j" options to cron.

And iocage makes all of this extremely simple, it can manage IPs for you and all that nonsense. There's also a sort of "clone" of iocage for bhyve.

Did you try "pkg install bash"?

If you're getting the "do it by hand" answer, you're asking in the wrong places. Ansible, SaltStack, all the devops automation stuff is available and can certainly handle "freebsd-…

This speaks more to the issues regarding the "made of many little pieces without coordination" spelled out in the linked post than to using simple scripts for service management. A…

Technically, there are already regulations. SLA lies are fraud. But I'm leery of any business who's so dishonest they fear any outside oversight that brings repercussions for said …

Nope, they nuked a local user group's channel simply for having Libera in the topic.

Didn't one of the major ISPs get their ass handed to them in court for trying to say that they were somehow exempt from keeping exactly this sort of information? I mean, you can SA…

$4K sounds incredibly overpriced.

Pilot is doing this cheaper than others, look into how they get their fiber in the ground...