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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by mekster on Saturday August 26, 2023 @12:32AM (#37269961)
The fact BSD can't run Docker with its vast ecosystem is already a show stopper.

Also having little glitches by tiny differences in shell handling make your already tuned Linux dotfiles incompatible that adds to the annoyances.

And then I don't really get anything over Linux. pf is good but I'm just mostly using ufw and not running a router in the cloud that requires more than port handling.

Ubuntu supports zfs in a very seamless way that I just don't find a reason to use BSD anymore unfortunately. It's probably only driven by companies that don't want to expose their code via GPL.

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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by olgeni on Saturday August 26, 2023 @09:01AM (#37272493)
Yep, what other reason could there be.
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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by gtewallace on Saturday August 26, 2023 @09:27AM (#37272698)
a couple projects underway for containers, still wip but promising.

https://hackmd.io/7BIT_khIRQyPAe4EdiigHg

https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj

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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by mekster on Saturday August 26, 2023 @09:56AM (#37272973)
If BSD can run existing Docker ecosystem, then suddenly FreeBSD becomes a candidate for use.

Though I don't find anything better than Linux, it's not lacking either.

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