[danarmak]

On the other hand, if BSDs had been more popular, one of these splinters might have dominated the market as much as Linux does, due to the many positive feedback effects of being the most successful free OS.

[geggam]

It still is a possibility. The Linux community is becoming a mess of things stuck together in and its getting to be really interesting to support.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

The BSDs aren't really much better in that regard once you leave the base install, and their hardware support is substantially worse.

[geggam]

I will agree hardware still lags but for the target of servers and serving its fine.

As far as BSD being a mess after base I completely disagree. Using and understanding a package manager makes life pretty simple.

That said if the Linux community did that they would probably realize how silly containers are :)

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Linux uses a bunch of package managers, it doesn't solve anything yet creates the problem of "X isn't in the repo, now what?".

[geggam]

If you dont understand that you need to automate and manage your own packages (including containers) for Linux, which meet your requirements, then no framework will help you.

You also need to do this for any pipeline for any OS.