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Re:The Next Gen Database Servers Powering Let's Encrypt(2021) by pdntspa on Sunday September 17, 2023 @01:01PM (#37547157)
Those things are cool... but I don't need them. I suspect many of us don't.

I like BSD's simplicity, consistency, and its native integration with ZFS. I don't know about deterministic builds but I suspect it does that without making a big deal, since everything can arrive via ports.

Linux, as much as I love it, is a rat's nest of different ideas and the inconsistency between distributions makes me want to pull my hair out. And man pages are good but the FreeBSD Handbook is better.

Re:The Next Gen Database Servers Powering Let's Encrypt(2021) by pmarreck on Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:37PM (#37551223)
> I suspect many of us don’t

One thing I’ve learned after crossing the 50 year mark is that time is actually the most valuable thing we have (and, most egalitarianly, everyone starts out with more or less the same amount of it left). So while troubleshooting can be enjoyable to many, time spent troubleshooting any issue that would simply be impossible to encounter in an alternative system is expensive indeed.

Consider reading this very understandable paper, which I consider at least as important as the Bitcoin paper: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf