Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:47:31 -0400 From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voxer using FreeBSD, BSDNow.tv interview Message-ID: <54444D93.2080205@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVfYQCBVRUcdPORAKGz_851YSTos=W7y0Sb2_VzO9cJ_oQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG=rPVfYQCBVRUcdPORAKGz_851YSTos=W7y0Sb2_VzO9cJ_oQ@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --v58m2OUVAUkP5R0pvi6a1nkaVT6Q1Begs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2014-10-19 18:09, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, >=20 > If you don't watch BSDNow.tv ( http://bsdnow.tv ), I encourage you to d= o so. > Allan Jude and Kris Moore do a great job of doing a weekly video podcas= t > of news in the BSD world. It is great stuff. >=20 > In episode 58 ( http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_10_08-behind_the_mas= q ) > BSDNow interviewed the CTO of Voxer ( http://voxer.com ), > a mobile messaging startup based in San Francisco. >=20 > Voxer mentioned how they transitioned from SmartOS (an Illumos/Solaris > distribution) to FreeBSD. >=20 > What Voxer liked: > (1) DTrace worked for their node.js apps > (2) ZFS worked nicely > (3) jails work nicely > (4) Easy to transition away from SmartOS/Illumos because of (1) a= nd > (2) > (5) Better support for 3rd party applications (ports) than > SmartOS/Illumos > (6) Better hardware support than SmartOS/Illumos > (7) Good documentation, professional/technical discussions on mai= ling > lists > (8) For people who use MacOS X, the FreeBSD command-line utilitie= s > were familiar >=20 > What Voxer didn't like: > Voxer was super positive about FreeBSD in the interview, and didn'= t > really > mention many downsides to their transition. The only things I cou= ld > pick up on: >=20 > (1) Support for FreeBSD in Chef was not as good as they would hav= e > liked. > They actually have patches to Chef > for FreeBSD which they want to upstream. > (2) Most devops engineers in web/mobile companies are familiar wi= th > Linux. Any differences between Linux and FreeBSD in > command-line > utilities are not show-stoppers, but they are annoyances. > Anything FreeBSD could do to help people used to Linux woul= d be > a big > help. Allan Jude even brought up my request to symlink > /bin/bash ( > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2014-September/095483= =2Ehtml > ) :) >=20 > The interview was really good, and I encourage everyone to watch it. > It's nice to see a "modern" web/mobile company migrating *to* FreeBSD. >=20 > -- > Craig > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 They said one of the biggest draws for them are TRIM support for ZFS on SSDs, which IllumOS does not have. Although I think that is something that Linux has now. If anyone else knows of companies like this, that can tell us why they use FreeBSD, what they'd like FreeBSD to do better, etc, we'd love to feature them on the show. It is important to foster the communications between end users and developers so that the itches get scratched. --=20 Allan Jude --v58m2OUVAUkP5R0pvi6a1nkaVT6Q1Begs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJURE2VAAoJEJrBFpNRJZKfafYP/2pfY4LVCVYrLEdZf4BvB0H8 q0MiNe8sKFneNre+QSZb3O6LHSHKoxvllTfYKSUKC9mhztPCRCS0V25t0FsKPSQJ An7F1IRSlSan3dOlMivdHfhrrxYH1oLkMdMKK13zI5GNXLgMDuPjlK9LALZajh92 /ikzJkEcJ74Lz5jgUxtHC35JM3M3gJzrkbB3Hlj9daDOxlr/c6MNlcCo1BWo3AmF mIL7BJce206ndh7qImtRIAPxCOiBOYzvfS0YTG3iZLWDa1bfjhMBbyf2THzuAqfn CnV7waMSHt8vyOmP+FIeuE0M+o81/lUuRxGoRWA9NpJ9oDb6XErWaODsWN3q5K6r rl7+msmmXktgOCQD2Af3ZtLtFr5oM/+YjAiAAGuQId1aImtdjOLHZeC4twW63DyU I19RdXFdtbPbGCKRK8c1udoNJ0NWbfSpOyWZWhB7kEA2kPonLH5jvNtSAutZPaoq 3y+mZllKFtcHY/x1RxTFWf6b+TynJZzwbqXHV57tXFxwxfzSYHzmXqBt806KNkif WPIAQAgI/Gx5FK8TMLugcWD7z40P9UYWARQHyMfCQ66fnzjA9/sM9JXXfF9RGhkn PxaygxNulFcmfwtlD5fmibAgrzPBgYiPnrdbZg09KHh0ijuEQqdOKuKfu8w9Ht47 TpS7zfw3LikqwKyRkgeF =E6T2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --v58m2OUVAUkP5R0pvi6a1nkaVT6Q1Begs--
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