[Info-vax] OT: Wrong technological decisions

[Simon Clubley]

On 2010-11-07, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
>  

I use Scientific Linux at home and on various secondary servers (as well
as my desktop) at work. So far it's been reliable for me, but I recommend
you following the mailing lists, as (rarely) updates break something but
when that happens it's rapidly fixed.

Pity about FreeBSD; I was about to investigate it. (I wanted to play
with ZFS among other things).

Simon.

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