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> After a week or month many of these packages will get updates sometimes making this CentOS system unusable or even unbootable (recent GRUB Boothole problem fo
by mekster 4y ago
> After a week or month many of these packages will get updates sometimes making this CentOS system unusable or even unbootable (recent GRUB Boothole problem for example).
Exaggerating a niche case doesn't do it any justice. I usually use Ubuntu but never had the system become unusable with package updates for 15 years.
People say FreeBSD is more integrated but never felt it brings any benefit from user's perspective. Tried to like FreeBSD by using it on a personal server on several occasions but I see no reason to use it anymore because it lacks Homebrew and Docker which is becoming more essential to make a comfortable environment with modern tools and apps.
The only better part is zfs integration but Ubuntu also has a very painless integration of zfs, I see no advantage at all.
> When using systemd(1) you never know how the services gonna start because it will be different each time.
What is this guy talking about?
Apparently the article is heavily biased only trying to make it look like FreeBSD is saner but apparently not.
- nerdponx 4y ago> After a week or month many of these packages will get updates sometimes making this CentOS system unusable or even unbootable (recent GRUB Boothole problem for example). I sometimes feel like some people live in an alternate dimension where everything is broken all the time. I can't remember a single time that a Linux system I use was rendered unbootable from a regular update. It happened once, when I was messing around with nonfree Nvidia drivers under OpenSUSE, which had (has?) poor support for such things. I know it does happen to some people once in a while, but I feel like some people complain about it as if it happened to them constantly.