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> I'm pretty sure, that the BSD family is pretty mature and secure. Not to mention illumos-based systems too.

• johannes1234321 1y ago
  I ran Open Solaris for a while on my Laptop and it's quite nice. However the lack of support by practically any software vendor made many things a pain. Since then even more stuff went to the Web, but I really I doubt Illumos got any extra traction.
  • NexRebular 1y ago
    Most of our server infrastructure runs on illumos at $work. SmartOS/Triton handles our "cloud" and OmniOS runs our storage. The linux monoculture problem luckily can still be handled with zones and bhyve, and I do trust illumos developers' competence to deliver good quality secure software a lot more than linux developers' as well. Now if FreeBSD (or indeed illumos) would get CUDA-support we could stop using linux for GPU nodes too.
    • throw0101b 1y ago
      > Now if FreeBSD (or indeed illumos) would get CUDA-support we could stop using linux for GPU nodes too. Could you not run Linux CUDA binaries under FreeBSD's Linuxulator?
      • NexRebular 1y ago
        It is possible, yes, but I would prefer to have full linux-free support for production use. There is on-going work for FreeBSD Cuda, though[0]. Just have to wait and see. [0] https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-04-2024-06/#_partnerships_and_research https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-04-2024-06/#_part...