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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by RMPR on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:54AM (#22854184)
Alpine and AntiX, I use them in VMs because they are lightweight, so far no issues.
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by freedomben on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:47AM (#22856291)
What kind of apps do you run? A variety of languages/platforms?

Some stuff runs great in Alpine. Other stuff is subtlety but catastrophically broken in Alpine (such as database servers/clients and others that depend highly on locale for determining encoding).

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by Grimm665 on Monday April 13, 2020 @11:29AM (#22856676)
Agreed. I thought Alpine was superb until I ran into an issue mounting NFS shares that seem to be mountable just fine on every other Linux machine I've got lying around. No idea what's wrong with Alpine's NFS.
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by RMPR on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:19PM (#22860133)
> What kind of apps do you run? A variety of languages/platforms?

Mainly Python, some issues with Musl, but nothing too bad. Anyway, these days I tend to mainly use AntiX.

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