Since ZFS is now so core to what we do, it was a very natural evolution.
I have zero experience with Dragonfly BSD.
I love that FreeBSD is still a very simple UNIX without complications like systemd. I was recently tinkering with a raspberry pi and had to work out wifi connectivity and had to interface with ... what is that weird wifi subsystem that linux uses ? Supplicant ? Wow.
I just want to pipeline commands and edit config files. I don't care that it's inefficient or doesn't scale. It has scaled just fine for me.
OpenBSD has better integrations with ifconfig and wpa though, it’s possible they are ported over now, but wifi config is the same as in Linux (or had been for quite a significant amount of time) on freebsd.
Completely agree about the opaque and incidental complexity of the systemd ecosystem though, I’m glad people love it but it’s not for me.
- if you could start all over fresh, what OS (and why) would you run your business on?
- what’s your opinion about Dragonfly? Any experience with it?
- what are the things you love about FreeBSD, as well as what still needs improvement (besides release cycle topic)?