[Info-vax] OT: Wrong technological decisions

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:35:54 +0000, 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).

You might like to obtain more than one data point.




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