You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting infrastructure (2019)

Re:You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting inf... by greggyb on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:08AM (#26425523)

A qualified generalist ops admin should be productive on any modern UNIX or UNIX-like within a couple weeks.

Figuring out how the guy last year set up FreeBSD consists of similar effort and process as figuring out how the guy last year set up Debian or CentOS or SUSE.

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Re:You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting inf... by Spooky23 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:28PM (#26426592)

It can be challenging. I basically bought my house based on figuring that out for people in the old days.

It’s not an issue with FreeBSD or anything per se. Usually there’s a genius superhero guy who does whatever, who burns out/quits/otherwise goes away, and the business is stuck.

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Re:You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting inf... by greggyb on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:25AM (#26436126)

I think we're agreeing past each other.

In this sort of sample scenario, it's not the platform, but the person who did crazy weird things -- things that they can do with any platform.

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