[FUG-BR] Fw: Few reasons to stay with BSD

[Márcio Elias]

Ao ler este e-mail, até senti orgulho do meu trabalho...:D

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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Nilton Jose Rizzo <rizzo em i805.com.br>wrote:

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>   Desculpem-me o cross-post mas vale a pena ler
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> Rizzo
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> De:Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio em gmail.com>
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> Enviada:Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:07:04 -0300
> Assunto:Few reasons to stay with BSD
>
> FreeBSD is still much better,
>
> until 7.X there was pkg_*  for a system with few
> packages ( less than 100) it worked. but
> as the system goes beyound 1000 packages, pkg_* becomes
> very slow, and broken.
>
> pkg, solved the problem, of working with freebsd if you work
> WITH pkg, and not against.
>
> See my case, for example, I have hundreds of users, that runs
> 8.X, 9.X and now 10.X. all of them uses gnome 2.32 and software
> written from gtk2, glade2, python2....  The system have more than
> 1000 packages, last count shows 1032.. and are updated once a
> week, everything works..   Some of them uses windows software
> that now runs on Virtualbox under FreeBSD.
>
> I have my OWN server (indeed, 2) for 9.X and 10.X, and all the other
> servers
> do is pkg upgrade -y  sometimes they update about 1GB (in the case of
> libconv, for example)
> and everything works as expected..
>
> If I used pkg_*  plus portupgrade or portmaster in each server, that
> woud be
> impossible to mantain..  pkg really made FreeBSD usable  for hundreds of
> servers.
>
> I have some linux on notebooks, that now the FreeBSD have KMS, are
> being
> moved to FreeBSD too.
> On the notebooks (using archlinux), kernel 3.12.3 the notebooks must
> have a
> "cold start"  from time to time (once a day), if not, the disk access
> becomes too slow
> to the point it is useless.. so a cold start resolv the problem..
> besides, the software layout
> that is now all in /usr/bin, the inittab is now systemd, the syslog is
> journal... and the
> file system is still ext4, as zfs for inux is not for production yet..
>
> Today, as the machines are powerfull,  you can buy an 32 core system
> with
> 1TB of memory, 12TB of disk for less than US$10,000.  What you will
> do???
> Install windows 8??  no way, windows 2012??? microsoft says it is
> unstable,
> 2008??? perhaps, 2003?? phased out..
>
> how many users will you put in an Microsoft OS??  at what price???
>
> A FreeBSD server running several windows 2008, can handle 200 users (20
> users per OS)
> using Virtualbox and ISCSI.  Never stops, never breaks, you can buy ONE
> windows 2008 and
> install the other 99 by cloning the machine.  Here the EULA says I must
> use ONE windows 2008
> licence in ONE machine,  does not mention what to do if I  Activate 100
> time the SAME image of  an OVA.  or VHD.
> (the same for windows 2012).
>
> Linux is good???  for sure!!, but FreeBSD+ZFS is better..
>
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