Wishlist: really looking forward for a proper binary package management (à la yum/apt) and long term releases!
FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
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Re: FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
#32FreeBSD, FTW!!!
Re: FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
#33Wishlist: really looking forward for a proper binary package management (à la yum/apt) and long term releases!
A much improved binary package management system, known as "pkgng," is on the horizon. More information is available at https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng. Pkgng will feel very natural to anyone familiar with apt.
If you'd like an introduction to pkgng there's a video from BSDCan 2012 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hxq7AHZ27I, or see the README at https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/blob/master/README.md.
Re: FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you recommend a BSD VM for web development? That's my use for linux, and would love to try something new, FBSD has a good reputation.
That's kind of a hard question to answer without knowing your definition and requirements for 'web development'. First, keep in mind that some of the packages will simply not run on FreeBSD because it's often overlooked by developers. Same logic applies for technical support for applications that are running on FreeBSD powered machine. You also will need to learn how port system works on FreeBSD and it might be a wei…
Ehh. I don't think it's too bad these days. Especially with tools like portsnap and portmaster(which are well documented in the handbook).
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#35Sometimes I felt that the FreeBSD-Linux situation is similar to Python-Ruby. FreeBSD/Python is more ... stable-ish and the community is calmer (or probably more mature) but the development is not as fast-pace as the Linux/Ruby counterpart.
That analogy doesn't really hold, since Python is more popular than Ruby, while FreeBSD is much less popular than Linux.
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#36Sometimes I felt that the FreeBSD-Linux situation is similar to Python-Ruby. FreeBSD/Python is more ... stable-ish and the community is calmer (or probably more mature) but the development is not as fast-pace as the Linux/Ruby counterpart.
That analogy doesn't really hold, since Python is more popular than Ruby, while FreeBSD is much less popular than Linux.
I'm surprised. I see more Ruby these days (all the online learning courses i.e.: codeacademy, etc).
Where I live, you won't have trouble finding Rails developers but not so much when it comes to Python.
Github is filled with probably more Ruby than Python.
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#37This is great to hear. I'm a huge fan of the BSD OS's, but it's been concerning that lately FBSD seemed to be falling out of favor. Unfortunately, many 'unix' people these days have only ever worked with Linux distros. While the distro model does provide a novel approach to packaging an OS that has it's strengths, there are some downsides. I love Linux for the suppor, the rapid release cycles, and the many different…
The first time I really had to use a BSD (OpenBSD) system for more than some simple tasks, I was blown away. There's a definite feel of design , as opposed to a large set of features and interfaces that happen to work together to varying degrees as in Linux. And the man pages. Oh, how wondrous they were. This first thing I had to do was learn to NOT google for how to accomplish something, but just read the man page.…
"Linux doesn't have man pages. It has boy pages." -- Glen Pritchett.
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#38This is great to hear. I'm a huge fan of the BSD OS's, but it's been concerning that lately FBSD seemed to be falling out of favor. Unfortunately, many 'unix' people these days have only ever worked with Linux distros. While the distro model does provide a novel approach to packaging an OS that has it's strengths, there are some downsides. I love Linux for the suppor, the rapid release cycles, and the many different…
Two reasons I recently switched to FreeBSD on my home servers, Dtrace and ZFS. In GNU/Linux I would need sort combination of strace,mpstat,ltrace,vmstat,iostat etc.. to find out the the things that a simple Dtrace script can tell me and also without dramatically affecting a running daemon process as the ptrace* system calls do.
Linux will soon have btrfs, which is as good as (if not better than) ZFS.
Also Dtrace & ZFS originally come from Solaries, so they are not FreeBSD projects. The only reason they do not work on Linux is because of license problems which Sun created.
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#39I absolutely adore FreeBSD. I work in linux these days because it's easier to bundle and distribute an upgradeable (binary distribution) linux appliance. I will run back to FreeBSD as soon as possible.
Re: FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in
#40This is great to hear. I'm a huge fan of the BSD OS's, but it's been concerning that lately FBSD seemed to be falling out of favor. Unfortunately, many 'unix' people these days have only ever worked with Linux distros. While the distro model does provide a novel approach to packaging an OS that has it's strengths, there are some downsides. I love Linux for the suppor, the rapid release cycles, and the many different…
The first time I really had to use a BSD (OpenBSD) system for more than some simple tasks, I was blown away. There's a definite feel of design , as opposed to a large set of features and interfaces that happen to work together to varying degrees as in Linux. And the man pages. Oh, how wondrous they were. This first thing I had to do was learn to NOT google for how to accomplish something, but just read the man page.…
> Note: One the reasons the OpenBSD ifconfig man page is so big is because on OpenBSD ifconfig does the job of multiple Linux utils, because it makes sense to have ifconfig control all the interface state.