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by deusum 1061 days ago
People keep saying they need a light and fast distro - no systemd, no glibc - but it breaks a lot of other software. So, you need to be prepared to patch a lot of stuff, and build packages from source.

Personally, I would love more of them to consider FreeBSD. It's got all of those features, a linux compatibility layer if necessary, a more permissive license, etc. I'd just love to see a lot more developers helping over there.
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packetlost 1061 days ago
Except you can't run FreeBSD in Kubernetes really. Or really anywhere besides in VMs in the Linux monoculture.
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ASalazarMX 1061 days ago
> a more permissive license

I see this as a net disadvantage. The great insight of the GPL licences is forcing changes to be contributed back to the project, companies can't easily privatize a public effort.

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szundi 1061 days ago
And this makes GPL based software like Linux stronger, more popular, more community to help
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richardwhiuk 1061 days ago
Moving to FreeBSD would require patching even more things.
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