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I use FreeBSD on servers instead of Linux for one reason: ZFS. It's really that much better than anything that is currently available on Linux. BTRFS is not even close. Yes I know it's available on Ubuntu but everything else about Ubuntu is just so messy.
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...or pick an operating system where you don't need to read the handbook to get working WiFi.
I'm on Linux and have to get a rtw8852 driver from some random-ish gitHub repo to get WiFi in a recent Lenovo. Does this mean WiFI is only for Win/Mac?
Let me pick and choose a few points since replying to everything will necessitate a similar 40-page post. FreeBSD has great engineering and release management practices When someone gets an idea and develops something new, it first gets peer technical reviews The recent WireGuard debacle left a bad taste about this. As it actually turns out, sometimes there is zero technical review for very important patches and a fe…
> Most services on my machines are heavily locked down and isolated from each other since systemd makes this very easy Do you have a guide handy? A quick Google search only showed generic nonsense. I'll appreciate a recipe-like pointer. Been curious about this for a while.
There is nothing in the CDDL that prevent a user to use ZFS with a kernel under GPL license and no leverage for Oracle to sue the end user for this. The end user is not distributing the software. Ubuntu or possibly an hosting provider or a company incorporating ubuntu in its product does.
There are virtualization options in FreeBSD, but I can't use FreeBSD in absence of mature OCI compatible container support, without going though hoops on bhyve. In present day, it matters a lot with a good amount of time being spent on docker/ kubernetes.
This is the same for me. ZFS native boot environments and such is a killer feature that I am envious of. Also proton gaming seems to be best supported on Linux from what I can tell.
- ZFS on root install of essentially void Linux
- rEFInd with a kernel sufficient just to boot into
- ZFSBootMenu which lets you boot into a prior boot environment
- ZFS native encryption of /home per user directory set up to unlock when you log in via PAM and zfscrypt
- An update script that automatically creates a boot environment prior to updating
- A mediocre choice of display manager and their own customer desktop environment that was neither in my opinion terrible nor interesting. Trivially replaceable with a different DE and lightdm.
Trident is alas gone but all the pieces remain and work fine.
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I am using freebsd since version 8 for all my server needs (was using linux, but got repelled by its chaos which I dont care about on my laptop, but it pisses me off on server). Some more points: - bhyve, developed by netapp, they ditched all old technologies support and it works faster on my i5 server than kvm on my i7 laptop. Snapshoting using ZFS is not a feature to discard either. - FIBs, absolute miracle routing…
What benchmark and what processors exactly?
I have tried learning FreeBSD occasionally, mostly for nostalgia because I learned Unix on BSD 4.3 (or 4.4?) on MicroVaxes many years ago. But I get stuck on some very basic things: - My wifi card doesn't work. The installer recognizes it, but the driver doesn't work. - The console terminal defaults to 80x25, I don't know how to resize it. - I can't figure out how to start X Windows. - If I run it in a VM (e.g. Virtu…
Anyway, there are some options to ease into it more. I find some of the ancient FreeBSD-isms a bit grating on occasion but overall I'm glad it's part of the mix.
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1: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/not-actually-linux-d...
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...or pick an operating system where you don't need to read the handbook to get working WiFi.
I'm on Linux and have to get a rtw8852 driver from some random-ish gitHub repo to get WiFi in a recent Lenovo. Does this mean WiFI is only for Win/Mac?
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Desktop Linux is pretty comfortable and intuitive, actually. There's no challenge involved.
A guy I know (relatively skilled) spent a whole week setting up Linux on his laptop the other day. So I don't think it's always as predictable as to say there's never a challenge involved in 2022.
Some people are just bad at this.
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FreeBSD has the concept of a 'security level'. You can increase it at runtime, which disables more functionality, but you can't decrease it without a reboot. At security level 1, the immutable and append only attributes on files can't be removed, so even chattr -i would be useless.
Linux has SELinux, which is enabled by default in RHEL and derivatives. You could literally hand out root shell to people, and they wouldn’t be able to make much mess out of it. There are SELinux policies to prevent disabling selinux too, of course. You probably wouldn’t even need chattr.
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Desktop Linux is pretty comfortable and intuitive, actually. There's no challenge involved.
A guy I know (relatively skilled) spent a whole week setting up Linux on his laptop the other day. So I don't think it's always as predictable as to say there's never a challenge involved in 2022.
Clearly OSX is not ready for the desktop yet.