Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure
by itgoon on Thursday June 09, 2016 @10:05AM
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I was a huge fan back in the 4.x - 6.x days.
The problems, for me, were: - apps developed specifically for Linux. The shim wasn't 100%. - Hardware support. This wasn't too bad, but I always had to take it into consideration. - Virtualization. This was the killer for me. Yes, jails are fantastic, if your entire workload ran on FBSD. But if you needed even one Windows/Linux instance, for any reason, you needed another physical machine. With Windows and Linux I could consolidate everything into a single machine.
Things have improved a lot, and I may try it out again, but unfortunately the mindshare is all Linux now.
Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure
by lmm on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:18AM
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It took a long time for FreeBSD to support MS-DOS partitioning, so for a long time you couldn't dual-boot between Windows and FreeBSD without buying a second hard disk. So kids getting started tended to run Linux instead of FreeBSD, and they stuck with what they knew.
Re:FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure
by emaste on Thursday June 09, 2016 @04:44PM
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DOS partition support was added to the FreeBSD installer over two decades ago:
Tue Sep 7 12:02:11 1993 UTC (22 years, 9 months ago)
Added DOS partition support and maybe badblock remappping.
I remember when FreeBSD was considered to be more mature than Linux for server use. What made Linux more exciting than FreeBSD? Why did FreeBSD lose ground?