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The voodoo is what bothers me. As the person responsible for the server, when things go wrong I will get blamed. In that situation, I at least want it to be my fault.
What "voodoo"?
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I use Linux as my main OS. I’d love to switch to FreeBSD but I can’t. Most software that run on Linux may or may not run on FreeBSD. And when it doesn’t, it’s typically hard or impossible to get instructions or community support. Looking at the download page, Firefox doesn’t even seem to have a FreeBSD version or instructions. I can understand for servers although you lose community support for most software and can’…
>Firefox doesn’t even seem to have a FreeBSD version or instructions. Erm, what? It's not Windows, that's what packages are for. Just "pkg install firefox".
Glad to hear Firefox has up to date packages in FreeBSD though!
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>Firefox doesn’t even seem to have a FreeBSD version or instructions. Erm, what? It's not Windows, that's what packages are for. Just "pkg install firefox".
I just checked the Firefox download page which doesn’t have any FreeBSD specific instructions (although it does for linux) Glad to hear Firefox has up to date packages in FreeBSD though!
It's a Browser, you don't need "specific" instructions for the base-os.
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I even say that instability of the Linux desktop was a considerable contributor to the decline of Linux powered workstations. People were getting used to the old reliable Gnome2 and the Windows-esque KDE desktop. But there's always some team of developers thinking they are Apple and completely throw years of progress out the window by breaking compatibility because of some usability "feature" their own selfish concep…
For many years I was using gnome shell. Every update meant broken extentions. The system would also crash occasionally after few days on a multi-head setup. Then I switched to a hybrid of Sway and KDE and have been never so happy.
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I want to deploy container images to a cluster: Here you go: https://bastillebsd.org/
#TIL Will check this out! Thanks! - I can see the Dockerfile equivalent (Bastillefile). - Not sure about the image distribution (Docker repositories) and Cluster management parts (Mesos, K8S)
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Yet… “On FreeBSD you'll notice right away that you're dealing with a "complete operating system", a system that has been put together very well.” It’s a complete operating system. /s This is why FreeBSD loses in my view. The arrogance of claiming to be a complete system when basic stuff like wifi doesn’t work.
> basic stuff like wifi Wi-fi is not basic. Having written a wifi driver, that’s something I’m comfortable stating unequivocally. The hardware is almost always proprietary and undocumented, and in many cases (looking at you, Broadcom), a poorly-designed shitshow of complex errata, proprietary magic numbers required for initialization, and in general, an absolute dogshit technology stack. The only reason Linux has wor…
The article hits the nail on the head about Linux' "mismatches". When distros need to be different gratuitously, you can no longer get a book on Linux that meaningfully applies across multiple distros. Heck, even an Ubuntu book would be irrelevant after a few changes (16 -> 18, 18 -> 20). The same people who respond in the community to questions about changes often respond to defend the changes, but rarely respond wi…
> distros need to be different gratuitously I, on the other hand, tend to think of distributions as operating systems in their own right, so the difference between them is something I welcome - otherwise what’s the point?
A Linux distro is an OS. They have in common with your Android phone the Linux kernel. That's a very, very small part of what goes into a distro.
One application where FreeBSD especially shines is as a fileserver to Windows clients: Unlike on Linux, NFSv4 ACLs are supported natively! The NT ACLs used in Windows and SMB are much more expressive than Linux's POSIX draft ACLs. When a Windows client writes a file to a Linux Samba server, it cannot necessarily express the file's ACL as a POSIX ACL losslessly. To work around this, Samba's vfs_acl_xattr saves the "re…
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…
Yet… “On FreeBSD you'll notice right away that you're dealing with a "complete operating system", a system that has been put together very well.” It’s a complete operating system. /s This is why FreeBSD loses in my view. The arrogance of claiming to be a complete system when basic stuff like wifi doesn’t work.
For me, FreeBSD wifi works straight of the box on the laptop I have.
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…
Aside: the thing that annoys me the most about FreeBSD is how bitter its proponents are that Linux "won". The tone of your comment a great example. It seriously turns me off. Some humility in finding out the shortcomings of BSD and ironing them out would be more beneficial in creating more competition in the OS space than complaining that all Linux users are idiots that haven't seen the light.