From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 18:18:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C81106566C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:18:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com (mail-fx0-f44.google.com [209.85.161.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB918FC13 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxe6 with SMTP id 6so5208903fxe.17 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:18:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=5HU+YQFfEGTwHKJ+AKRFaMYniNOAQ+4mbqiX35ZmSo8=; b=XTGeHtnmZ2iU22exLOlVGts3JJmimDbj6W8X0U7NYb+eHj12y/XlUdvt4RWo8LKDK2 eNjj4r3kX5k3ndv3H8u0Wt0q5kf57pzamRe35ru23ENyvZ43EdeWkMstiEXmlFWDm1rW hqCFYo+jfNtI04F2WRnpkPmMLNlXyRUkk1yLU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.160.144 with SMTP id n16mr4206820fax.88.1311013134228; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:18:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.124.67 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:18:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E2409E7.5090109@thingy.com> References: <20110717071059.25971662@scorpio> <4E22DFE9.7050007@pathscale.com> <201107172016.30727.lobo@bsd.com.br> <4E23989F.7010701@gmail.com> <4e242fab.s4vpgxxZEUq0LFDq%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4E23D7E7.7060602@gmail.com> <20110718100541.a5105216.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110718121426.1af63b55@atmarama.net> <4E2409E7.5090109@thingy.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:18:54 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Howard Jones Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:18:55 -0000 On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Howard Jones wrote: > On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: > > Interesting - I'm in the process of switching our FreeBSD servers to > Linux (Debian and CentOS), to get away from the packaging/ports mess :-) > I've been spoilt by apt-get and yum and first-class support in Puppet. > I've been a FreeBSD user since 2.x, but keeping a significant number of > systems up to date is just tedious without a decent binary package > manager/updater. > What I find interesting is how strongly you speak of FreeBSD's power. You have to replace it with two Linux distributions, greatly expanding your management overhead. -- Adam Vande More