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I recently migrated to FreeNAS/FreeBSD. It's joyfully oldschool sysadmining, and for hobbyists/home server owners, it's so much nicer. For business vs systemd.

• geofft 7y ago
  For business we want something that works. At my last three jobs in a row I've had problems that systemd has been solving in an elegant, robust way. (Eight years ago it was startup ordering bugs with Upstart in an appliance; four years ago it was cleaning up a pile of cronjobs and handling the ordering relationships between them; today it's cleaning up a single cronjob that starts a big supervisord.) For home use, sure, there's a joy to making things work. Same as some people enjoy building a computer from parts - but you'll never see a business telling their employees to go to PCPartPicker and put something together.
  • pmlnr 7y ago
    > Upstart in an appliance > single cronjob that starts a big supervisord /me screams Seriously, why? All of those you're listing are monsters, and they should never have existed in the first place.
    • geofft 7y ago
      Because real-world systems aren't as pretty as hobby systems.
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