[Info-vax] OT: Wrong technological decisions

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/7/2010 7:35 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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).
>

I thought ZFS was a file system running under Solaris.  I also thought 
that it was the property of Sun/Oracle.