Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:37:18 +0100 From: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore Message-ID: <4E247D5E.20106@thingy.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK28K8ZWNhFHiH9ALMwDu-xyn6DJDwGR-GF7QSWVk6zJyg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110717071059.25971662@scorpio> <CAGwOe2YpUXgFx1f_1UWHNt4S=p=X1Soa348KWR9BTrjxF0bAwA@mail.gmail.com> <4E22DFE9.7050007@pathscale.com> <201107172016.30727.lobo@bsd.com.br> <4E23989F.7010701@gmail.com> <4e242fab.s4vpgxxZEUq0LFDq%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4E23D7E7.7060602@gmail.com> <20110718100541.a5105216.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110718121426.1af63b55@atmarama.net> <4E2409E7.5090109@thingy.com> <CA%2BtpaK28K8ZWNhFHiH9ALMwDu-xyn6DJDwGR-GF7QSWVk6zJyg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 18/07/2011 19:18, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com > <mailto:howie@thingy.com>> wrote: > > On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: > > Interesting - I'm in the process of switching our FreeBSD servers to > Linux (Debian and CentOS), to get away from the packaging/ports > mess :-) > I've been spoilt by apt-get and yum and first-class support in Puppet. > I've been a FreeBSD user since 2.x, but keeping a significant > number of > systems up to date is just tedious without a decent binary package > manager/updater. > > > What I find interesting is how strongly you speak of FreeBSD's power. > You have to replace it with two Linux distributions, greatly expanding > your management overhead. > Hehe. Not really - for work it's CentOS. I decided to try Debian for myself on my personal server. Even if it weren't though, I'd still be glad to skip portupgrade and friends. I will miss ipfw and netgraph on the other hand.
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