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I'm tired of hearing theoretical awesomeness but is there actually any practical awesomeness about FreeBSD? FreeBSD just lacks the modern tooling environment t

I'm tired of hearing theoretical awesomeness but is there actually any practical awesomeness about FreeBSD? FreeBSD just lacks the modern tooling environment that is Homebrew and Docker and I no longer even consider using FreeBSD as a hobby server.

kitsunesoba 4y ago
As a long time Mac user with a FreeBSD home server… what does homebrew do that pkg doesn’t? I guess homebrew has casks but that’s moot on a server that’s never going to run anything with a UI. I don’t have much to say about docker except that its dominance can be irritating when you don’t want to strongly couple all your things with Linux (yes, it technically runs on macOS and Windows but not very nicely…). I keep hoping for a more platform agnostic container to steal the show.
- mekster 4y ago
  I actually thought I had missing packages that I use via Homebrew on FreeBSD packages but I was surprised that it's covered pretty well now. I guess it's only Docker that bothers me then.
  - nix23 4y ago
    >I guess it's only Docker that bothers me then. https://bastillebsd.org/ https://bastillebsd.org/
    - mekster 4y ago
      What I value is the ease of deployment through docker repository ecosystem and not exactly about containerization.
      - nix23 4y ago
        Ah ok, well that's different, i just use base images a make my "apps".