Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure
by PeCaN on Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:12PM
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Ha, I did exactly the same thing. FreeBSD is well-organized and generally makes sense. It stays out of the way and just works.
BSD documentation culture is also second-to-none. Seriously, the manual for every BSD is incredible.
FreeBSD's cousin DragonFlyBSD is also (IMO) doing some of the most interesting research in Unix-like OSes right now. It's a sort of hybrid of FreeBSD and Plan9, with a cutting-edge-and-more-stable-than-btrfs filesystem.
Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure
by kevinmgranger on Thursday June 09, 2016 @10:33AM
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>the last nail in Arch's coffin
Has Arch dropped in popularity since then, or do you mean "in Arch's coffin [for me]" ?
Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure
by toyg on Thursday June 09, 2016 @10:59AM
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Total anecdata, but the usual amount of HN comments on how this and that "just works" in Arch, seems to have dropped recently. It's still #9 on Distrowatch (I'm pretty sure at one point it was in the top 5), so it's not disbanded or anything.
I could see how the core Arch users would despise systemd anyway. For all protestations to the contrary, Arch is pretty hardcore ("all upstream all the time! Configure everything yourself!"). Hardcore old-hat sysadmins are the ones most affected by systemd reinventing the init wheel.
Arch progressively lost this feature and was one of the first distros to adopt systemd which was the last nail in Arch's coffin. When their docs suggested I manually write a unit file to configure networking rather than having 1 line in rc.conf, I was done.
My move was to go to FreeBSD. I feel like I'm right back to what I liked about Arch originally. So yeah, I'm sure some people are well served by making this move.