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by DeathArrow 630 days ago
$750000 seems very little amount for this task. I think they should somehow attract companies to invest in FreeBSD development.

Apart from laptop support, FreeBSD is missing important things on server side suck as lack of support for Kubernetes. This is hindering FreeBSD adoption, too.
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pmlnr 630 days ago
FreeBSD has jails if you need lightweight vms. The kubernetes monoculture is a horrible thing for long term.
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kortilla 630 days ago
Jails are akin to containers, not kubernetes. The value of k8s over just docker or whatever container runtime is in the lifecycle management, service mesh, scaling, monitoring, etc.
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whizzter 630 days ago
Even without Kubernetes this kinda was indicative of the FreeBSD community missing the point, jails are neat but docker added a lot of ease of use above the how you basically managed jails manually (at least according to official instructions), people just kept mentioning that the capability had been there but missed that the ease of use was what charmed developers.

Also hurting it was that the Docker story on FreeBSD is had attempts to make it "native", through the Linux emulation layer with ZFS native functionality to handle the VFS parts and while that could have been elegant it required cutting edge and afaik never got really production ready (There's apparently docker port now via VirtualBox).

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