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Re: People who run BSD

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Post by karmakaze » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 3:34 AM UTC

I tried to use OpenBSD for software development and deployments. It didn't work well because it seemed that packages didn't get as much use judging by inconsistent documentation and sometimes faulty defaults. I didn't care enough to contribute to fix the issues I ran into. Instead I went back to the Ubuntu LTS as before.

I briefly also looked at kFreeBSD with a Debian userland to address the issue but it seemed to be even less well traveled.

Re: People who run BSD

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Post by inferiorhuman » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 3:54 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #13

ivoras wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is a bit bizarre because FeeeBSD jails were world's first containers on a vaguely desktop-ish unix-ish systems. The crowd just never had the hype power of Linux and no big player took to developing cool things on top. It just shows you that having a technically good solution is irrelevant if there's no marketing behind it.

I remember using Tru64 and HP-UX containers before any BSD got them.

And Solaris zones. But FreeBSD is far more desktop oriented than anything Sun or HP put out (and yes I ran Solaris as a desktop OS for a bit, but still).

Re: People who run BSD

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Post by sirn » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 7:05 AM UTC

karmakaze wrote: post #21

I tried to use OpenBSD for software development and deployments. It didn't work well because it seemed that packages didn't get as much use judging by inconsistent documentation and sometimes faulty defaults. I didn't care enough to contribute to fix the issues I ran into. Instead I went back to the Ubuntu LTS as before. I briefly also looked at kFreeBSD with a Debian userland to address the issue but it seemed to be…

I wonder what kind of development and deployments you do and whether FreeBSD might work better. For instance, FreeBSD packages (ports/pkgng) has two branches: latest and quarterly. I've found latest often closely tracking upstream releases.

My work consist of Elixir/Erlang development and a bit of deployments with Kubernetes/Helm/Kapitan/Jsonnet. I primarily work on iPad and login to the FreeBSD workspace via Blink.sh/Mosh and it all worked really well.

That said, if your work involve Haskell and Stack, you might want to stick with FreeBSD 11.2 since Stack still hasn't release a version that supported FreeBSD 12 (which broke due to FreeBSD 12.0 change to inode64)

Re: People who run BSD

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Post by karmakaze » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 3:06 PM UTC

sirn wrote: post #23

karmakaze wrote: post #21

I tried to use OpenBSD for software development and deployments. It didn't work well because it seemed that packages didn't get as much use judging by inconsistent documentation and sometimes faulty defaults. I didn't care enough to contribute to fix the issues I ran into. Instead I went back to the Ubuntu LTS as before. I briefly also looked at kFreeBSD with a Debian userland to address the issue but it seemed to be…

I wonder what kind of development and deployments you do and whether FreeBSD might work better. For instance, FreeBSD packages (ports/pkgng) has two branches: latest and quarterly. I've found latest often closely tracking upstream releases. My work consist of Elixir/Erlang development and a bit of deployments with Kubernetes/Helm/Kapitan/Jsonnet. I primarily work on iPad and login to the FreeBSD workspace via Blink.s…

My motivation for trying *BSD over Linux is for security/stability which is OpenBSD's goal more than FreeBSD.