antranigv

FreeBSD has 3 different firewalls, not 3 different interfaces to the same firewall. Each firewall has its own purpose. IPF is lightweight, pf has a nice UI/UX, ipfw is very integrated into the system.

More importantly, doing a simple kldstat would tell you which firewall is running. On Ubuntu (as an example) I have no idea if I should be using nftables, iptables or if ufw is working or not.

OVAs are basically ZIP files with some XML. If you want, you can convert an OVA to RAW image or VMDK or whatever the latest fancy format is, and bhyve can boot that for you. Better to use Raw.

bhyve, unlike other "famous" hypervisors is pretty stable, has good enough virtualized drivers (altho I'm sure Oxide has made it better) and can boot a VM with 1.5 TB of RAM and 240 vCPU[1]. Something I was not able to do with anything other than bhyve.

I know this is HackerNews, so I have to say it, marketing != engineering. Just because the FreeBSD project's marketing suck, doesn't mean engineering is bad. usually it better than the mainstream ones.

1: https://antranigv.am/posts/2023/10/bhyve-cpu-allocation-256/

> is that a defect in upstream, or is the local sh not completely posix compatible? AFAIK it's an issue with upstream. Just like most open-source projects, there is Linuxism/Bashism in there.

Oh yes, whilst Docker was created to help developers to think operationally, it (ironically) ended up helping Developers to not think about operations at all.

author here!

I'm not against the "concept" of systemd, I think the BSDs need a "system" layer as well, just not systemd. The ideas are amazing, the implementation is the problem.

Hi there! author of the post here!

I will answer most of the questions below :)

1) 3 days to setup macOS? Yes, it took me at least 3 days, keep in mind that a setup is not just installing software, it's also dotfiles, shell environment, automout (I use NFS a lot), PGP/GPG-alike keychains, the OS keychain, Firewall (pf in my case), privacy settings, company-related software, etc. So yes, it takes time, which I am okay with. My problem with macOS is the fact that updating/upgrading the system crashes a lot of configuration.

2) Why FreeBSD? Because I love it :) my company's product is based on FreeBSD, my servers are FreeBSD, my operating system of choice for teaching is FreeBSD. The handbook is there, all man pages are well written, pkg is easy to use, it's a whole system. Also: ZFS and DTrace makes your life easier. Sure, I can have ZFS on Linux and eBPF, but why learn a new technology when DTrace is rock-solid. FreeBSD is not "just" an OS, it's a complete self-hosted development ecosystem.

3) WiFi? Yes, WiFi is not the best, but not everyone needs 100Mbps connection. I have a wired connection at home to use when streaming movies to my PS4 (also a FreeBSD-based system), but other than that, it's fine. I will still donate every year so the devs improve it.

Apologies for the bad English, it's not my native language.

Thanks for posting and reading!

very good question! source definition -> no. services -> yes. deployments -> yes. configmaps -> no. multiple containers on single host -> yes. I should add the most common features I think. I also haven't integrated it with any reverse-proxy service yet, but will try that too.

I mean, I've built a Kubernetes-y thing for my own needs, mostly "scheduling" LXC and FreeBSD Jails, and it needs hella less than 256MB of RAM and it's around 20MBs. Maybe I should clean the code and publish it.

For people who are going to ask "Do people still use pascal?", long story short-> yes they do, and Free Pascal Compiler is not only the traditional Pascal that we used to lean in school, it's also an Object Pascal compiler, and has many many libraries for modern programming :)) I started learning programming with Pascal when I was a child, it helped me to understand many things, lately I had a look at Python, which I love it a lot, but when I took a look back at Pascal (Object Pascal this time) I understood that everyone should start programming with Object Pascal and learn about the basics (then use what ever you want, .NET, Java, C++, Ada, etc). BUT I found out about this amazing language Oberon-2, and I should say that in schools we should move not to Python/Java, but to Oberon-2 (it's again a Wirthian language). Sorry for my bad English, just wanted to share my view, and I'd like also to say that (IMHO) making GUI programs using Lazarus is much easier than, well, anything else :))

First they killed the chat by bringing up hangouts, now killing the idea of email by "inbox".

Google, killing the net since lately (:

personal mail server for ever! ;)

Lucky us, now we have Jolla and Sailfish OS (: there are also platforms like mer - nemomobile - maemo - tizen... but the average user likes iPhone/iOS and Android, that is marketing of course...

Personally, I'd go with Jolla and Sailfish, as now I have N900 with maemo, and I feel the freedom, even after 5 years, it is still the one of the best phones. Communities are what we need, not capitalism.

Not hackers god damn it, it's crackers...