Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by stormbrew on Saturday August 06, 2022 @01:58PM
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Some of this may be true, though I have some disagreements about the accuracy of some (and also the issue that "Linux" is a broad target and some of these apply more or less to different distributions or os'), but freebsd definitely had its share if chaos in its history. The fbsd4-6 era was a difficult one to navigate and it's basically where I feel off the freebsd bandwagon.
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by GekkePrutser on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:12PM
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Me too, at FreeBSD 6. ZFS was also pretty new and unstable in those days. I upgraded and could no longer read my pools.
But I came back to it in the last few years and it's matured a lot.
Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by hnlmorg on Sunday August 07, 2022 @03:06AM
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ZFS wasn’t just new when FreeBSD 6 was released, ZFS wasn’t even released itself. :P
FreeBSD 7 was the first release to support ZFS and even in that it was marked as experimental support.
So if you were using ZFS before FreeBSD 8, and especially somehow on 6 and below, then you’re very much using ZFS at your own risk and can’t really complain if things go sideways.