[Info-vax] OT: Wrong technological decisions

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <8jl37fF36nU17 at mid.individual.net>,
	Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:03:55 -0400, JF Mezei wrote:
> 
>> I guess that leaves Linux as the one viable solution.
> 
> FreeBSD is a particularly nice, and common, server system.
> 
> It doesn't have to be Linux.

FreeBSD is rapidly moving downhill.  Every release has less and less
ports that actually work and many that have just plain been dropped.
It won't boot or install on a number of Virtualization options.
It continues to use an incompatable shadow password method making
it impossible to include it in any heterogenous enterprise.
Useful concepts like FreeNAS are being dropped as more and more of
the developers move to the greater viability offered by Linux.
After running FreeBSD as our server platform since the 2.1 days I am
now forced to look at moving our entire operation over to Linux.

So far, it looks like Scientific Linux is going to become our new 
baseline.
 
bill

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