[irishcoffee]

> I actually laughed out loud. Try upgrading CentOS to Rocky vs FreeBSD 11 to 15 ( that's FOUR major versions from 2017 I think ), and tell me again how good it is.

I laughed out loud, there is no in-place upgrade mechanism for that in those distros and never has been, that is the nature of those distros. They release patch/security updates until they go EOL, which is measured in units closer to decades than years.

I don’t have a problem with BSDs. That’s cool you like upgrading in place.

The best and most laugh-inducing part of your whole point is that centos now not only allows you to do in-place upgrades, that’s the whole fucking point.

[gtech1]

So then what's the point of mentioning Rocky as CentOS's successor ? In what way is it 'succeeding' ? That you can do a fresh install of Rocky ? And those stuck on CentOS can't upgrade ? Really useful those decades of support if your distro goes belly up

[irishcoffee]

You don’t know this ecosystem, clearly. I’m not going to explain it to you much more than I did.

Centos was the free version of red hat. Like redhat, centos never fucking ever offered in-place upgrades. Centos moved to stream as a sandbox for redhat, and rocky took over as the free redhat.

Ask an LLM or something, this level of ignorance is unbecoming.

[gtech1]

And knowing all this you still can't see what the use case might be for BSD ?

[irishcoffee]

> And knowing all this you still can't see what the use case might be for BSD ?

When did I ever suggest anything that would give you that idea?

[gtech1]

So what's your point then ? That these are toy/homelab distros ? If so, then we are in agreement

[irishcoffee]

You should go re-read this. All I said was I hated ubuntu. I don't even know what paradigm you're inquiring from at this point, and I have no clue how to answer your question.

We were never in agreement or disagreement. You've been arguing against a stance I don't have.

BSDs are cool. They pushed the OS ball forward on server/home computing, video game consoles, etc. Linux is also cool, they pushed the OS ball forward on server/home computing, video game consoles, etc.

There is a long and storied history of computer operating systems. This conversation has shown me you're not aware of said history. You should go learn yourself up some.