[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

[Judah Richardson]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 9:36 PM Chris <oidev at sunos.info> wrote:

> On 2021-03-02 03:20, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> >
> > Another weakness of FreeBSD is the init system of it that has to be
> > mitigated by
> > tools like daemontools.
> No offense, but this is false.
> > Some embrace the KISS principle praise it for it
> > deterministic and simplicity. But when comparing with Solaris' SMF and
> FMA,
> > FreeBSD's RC init system is a joke. That's real. FreeBSD's RC init
> system
> > loses to
> > SystemD, too, even though they don't want to admit it.
> This is purely opinion (yours). :-)
>
I've run FreeBSD since 2018. rc.d is great when used with packages that
were developed for it. Otherwise, I've found it problematic.

I know many, many people who flocked from Linux to FreeBSD

I wish those people would show up in the FreeBSD forums or subreddits. The
nice thing about Linux is if you have a problem you can get 20 sets of eyes
on it in a single post. If you have a FreeBSD problem - especially 1
involving interaction with another OS - you might get 2 or 3 replies.

when SystemD as
> the only option became final. Those whom couldn't bear to leave Linux, went
> to Slackware.
>
> --Chris
>
> --
> ~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
> ~40yrs of UNIX
>
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