On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 01:35:26PM -0400, Daniel Corbe wrote:
Not to get even further off topic here but when was the last time you maintained a BSD system? FreeBSD (at least) adopted binary package management as its preferred interface to ports through pkg-ng somewhere in the 9-RELEASE cycle.
Yeah, it was some time ago (fortunately, people keep me far away from systems administration now). But that doesn't exactly help: since others drew the same conclusion, _even if BSD is now a perfectly rational choice_, I've lost functionality I desire. Docker is a great example of this. For many use cases, it's obviously better than the alternatives. So now I _can't_ pick FreeBSD. And so on.
This systemd debacle is an excellent reason to look into stuff that isn't Linux. The Linux camp all too often become victims of "not invented here"
I don't think the latter is restricted to the Linux world! But as I suggested, the network security implications of all that stuff hidden in one critical system sure seem to require some thinking. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asullivan@dyn.com v: +1 603 663 0448