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0 pointslaumars10y ago0 comments

> You're missing the point. Even if jails is the most elegant, easy and powerful technology in the world it's still on BSD. People are not going to switch to BSD just because of jails.

We're not just talking about jails though. The OP was discussing systemd + containers. Switching to FreeBSD to escape systemd isn't that weird of an idea since most of the same Linux software will also run on FreeBSD. In fact I'm seriously considering switching my Debian 7 (Wheezy) servers over to FreeBSD rather than upgrade to Debian 8 (Jessie) and have deal with systemd. Anecdotally I've read other people consider switching away from Linux as well

You might like systemd and Dockers. That's great. But that's your personal preference. You shouldn't be so surprised when other people might prefer to run the same software but on a different platform.

On a tangent note: I also have a bunch of existing systemd systems - RHEL servers, ArchLinux desktops, etc - that I'm very happy with and intend to keep running Linux. I make this point just to emphasise that I'm not anti-Linux nor a FreeBSD fanboy. Just someone who's platform agnostic.

> Sure, then can use both, but why?

Why not? This isn't a sports team where you're expected to only support one product. It's quite possible to use multiple different technologies based on whatever fits a specific purpose better.

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xaduha10y ago

> Why not? This isn't a sports team where you're expected to only support one product.

Linux/Docker and BSD/jails aren't even in the same league.

laumarsOP10y ago

> Linux/Docker and BSD/jails aren't even in the same league.

Since you don't have any basis for comparison, I'm going to have to assume that you're now just trolling me. So I'll end our correspondence here.

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