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by appendix-rock 619 days ago
I don’t buy this article.

> Clients are often influenced by hype. A few years ago, it was "Linux is a toy." Now, it's "Why bhyve and not Proxmox?" They ask, "How can they sell FreeBSD? There's no AI, there's no Cloud, there's no Kubernetes, there's no blockchain – there's nothing!"

I am very confident that this is more ‘fan fiction’ than the author would like to admit. The sort of hypothetical that someone cooks up on their head to anger up the blood and to then self-soothe by thinking about how much better than everyone else they are.

Why does everything have to be so bloody religious? If you like boring tech, stop politicising it.
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OsrsNeedsf2P 619 days ago
You sure?

I made a semi-successful blockchain based product 5 years ago. At two, separate employers, I was urged to make a blockchain based solution to.. well actually the problem was not described in either case, only the use of blockchain.

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viraptor 619 days ago
If the described people understand so little about tech, it doesn't even matter what they say. You can try to educate them or say something even more BS for them to agree with (blockchain 2 on kubershmetes).
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mst 619 days ago
The vast majority of the comments on this article are people being religious about Linux.

I'll be over here running a mixture of Debian Stable and FreeBSD and wondering why everybody insists on getting so angry about these things.

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krick 618 days ago
Yeah, as if Linux has AI and Blockchain and these don't exist on BSD systems...

Admittedly, Linux really isn't boring enough for me. By boring I mean I don't really want to notice that OS exists, I want a distro that has most answers to any noob question on Google, all drivers for all hardware out of the box, no fancy package managers like snap or cool future technology like ZFS, no way to shoot myself in the foot however hard I try... But in fact almost all cool future technology comes to Linux from BSD, but it has less drivers, less packets, and googling yields less results. Everything else is pretty much the same everywhere and always comes with caveats.

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