[Info-vax] systemd boycott call was: Re: Why so much Unix envy?

[terry+googleblog at tmk.com]

On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 11:04:41 PM UTC-4, wend... at yahoo.com wrote:
> I found there has actually been a groundswell of comments along this 
> line lately. Still, I think the number of people who follow through 
> on the idea will be relatively small. There is just too much of a gap
> in hardware and application support between Linux and FreeBSD. I myself
> haven't liked the un-Unix-like evolution of Linux for some time, but 
> moving away from it is generally unfeasible.

Moving away from Linux is much easier if you never moved there in the first place 8-}

I've been using FreeBSD for years and years. In the few cases where I needed a specific commercial product, the vendor has been receptive to creating a FreeBSD version. Perhaps they see the writing on the wall as well. The most recent vendor I convinced to do a FreeBSD port was emuvm.com - their AlphaVM emulator now runs on FreeBSD. So you are no longer limited to Windows or Linux as your choices for the host environment.

As far as hardware support goes, FreeBSD supports a reasonably large set of hardware. Yes, it supports less than Windows or Linux. But it arguably supports more hardware than VMS does, which is relevant to this community. The main areas where FreeBSD hardware support is lacking is graphics (particularly accelerated and 3D) and sound (to a somewhat lesser extent). But those are likely not important to users migrating server-type applications.