FreeBSD and Me
I just spent a bunch of time trying to get OpenSUSE 10.2 installed on a server in my office to handle dns, ldap authentication, and some other minor stuff. Well after a number of crashes and subsequent jiggering I got it up an running only to have it mysteriously crash later that night during an ssh session. Hmm, after I reboot the file system is damaged, and I am pissed. So I install FreeBSD 6.2 on the machine, and both the machine and I are happy. Me and BSD go way back, and I am reminded every time I try to install Linux why I love BSD. I spent a number of years using OpenBSD, both in the military and after. I really love OpenBSD but FreeBSD’s ports tree is more up to date and the developer community is larger, which is what got me to switch in the end. Linux too has a large developer community and lots of up to date software, but the fragmented distros, user community, and crappy package systems keep me coming back to BSD.
Anyhow it’s nothing against Linux or OpenSUSE, I actually think OpenSUSE has a lot of potential. It’s just amazing to me that the same issues continue to plague Linux more than 10 year after I picked up my first copy of Redhat.
