Re:People who run BSD
by ignoramous on Saturday March 30, 2019 @06:57AM
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> no big player took to developing cool things on top.
Just one data-point, but WhatsApp engineering was adamant that FreeBSD was a key precursor that allowed them to scale 2m+ connections per host on their (rather beefy) boxes: https://youtu.be/TneLO5TdW_M
> It just shows you that having a technically good solution is irrelevant.
True. I've seen many promising projects die/stagnate at the hands of unpopularity, *BSDs wouldn't be the first. Sigh.
Re:People who run BSD
by tannhaeuser on Saturday March 30, 2019 @03:58AM
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It maybe also shows how brainwashed or resume-oriented the tech crowd is.
Network effects are real though.
I remember using Tru64 and HP-UX containers before any BSD got them.
Re:People who run BSD
by inferiorhuman on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:54PM
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And Solaris zones. But FreeBSD is far more desktop oriented than anything Sun or HP put out (and yes I ran Solaris as a desktop OS for a bit, but still).
Re:People who run BSD
by stingraycharles on Saturday March 30, 2019 @05:42AM
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Exactly, Docker was able to get a lot of traction because of a variety of reasons (timing and usability, to name a few), even though from a technical perspective it's very much a suboptimal implementation.
And right now you just have a huge network effect around containers + linux: the tooling + support is the most compelling reason to "suck it up" and just fire up Ubuntu and call it a day.
The crowd just never had the hype power of Linux and no big player took to developing cool things on top.
It just shows you that having a technically good solution is irrelevant if there's no marketing behind it.