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FreeBSD is starting to look really good.

• Shared404 6y ago
  I agree. I've been seeing more and more about the BSD's online recently, and to be quite honest, I'm happy about that. Just installed OpenBSD for the first time the other day, and am loving it.
  • liv-io 6y ago
    This might help you on your start: https://github.com/liv-io/ansible-roles-bsd https://github.com/liv-io/ansible-roles-bsd
    • Shared404 6y ago
      Looks like a nice resource, many thanks!
• apecat 6y ago
  I would agree that BSD systems are nicer to look at, and FreeBSD supporting major releases for five years, with forcing people to install point releases once a year is really quite nice. But I don't see BSD becoming practical as a platform to run (commercial enterprise) Linux software, when it's already a pain to get packages and support for anything that's not RHEL/CentOS.
  • toast0 6y ago
    It's not ideal, but you can run Linux software on FreeBSD. Commercial enterprise tends to be conservative and not need bleeding edge Linux interfaces that may not be available through the linux emulation layer yet.
• bluedino 6y ago
  What are the usual roadblocks for people?
  • skibbityboop 6y ago
    Needing VMs to perform well, comparably to KVM/Xen, would be a blocker for going BSD. Jails are awesome but not containers you're blocked there as well (if you need containers and the tooling around them).
    • nix23 6y ago
      >VMs to perform well, comparably to KVM/Xen Bhyve performs very well. >Jails are awesome but not containers you're blocked there as well What are containers? Ansible with OS-Virtualisation right? So with Jails and Salt/Ansible/puppet or Templates you have your Containers. OR just take that: https://bastillebsd.org/ https://bastillebsd.org/