[Info-vax] OT: Wrong technological decisions

[Simon Clubley]

On 2010-11-08, Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>> 
>> 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.
>

Although that looks like a direct response to Bill, it wasn't.

I have a unused AlphaStation at home, with multiple spare disk drives.
I was going to install FreeBSD onto it in order to play with ZFS (as ZFS
now apparently runs on all supported FreeBSD ports). As the machine was
unused, I could just destroy the contents of the disks, which I cannot
do with any of my other home systems.

Unfortunately, I just discovered that the Alpha port of FreeBSD was
discontinued several versions ago.

Simon.

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