[LAU] FreeBSD

[Brent Busby]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Joe Hartley wrote:

> I've been a UNIX/Linux administrator longer than some folks on this 
> list have been alive.  systemd has always seemed like a solution to a 
> problem that didn't really exist, and causes more issues than it 
> solves,

That describes all the software Lennart Poettering writes.  :)

> I have run FreeBSD servers in the past (and may again), but it was 
> never under consideration when I dropped Fedora because to me it 
> doesn't seem to be the right tool for the job.

It isn't.  FreeBSD is for Internet servers and people who want a desktop 
that acts and feels like a classical UNIX workstation of the 90's.  (Or 
as someone in another thread put it once, FreeBSD is great for those 
times when you want to say, "Just shut up and give me UNIX!")

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