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Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good

2024-10-08 21:50:58.025574+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

I recently saw a rant about this in which one of the examples was that BSD still uses ifconfig, and I get it. With the bloat of glibc, I have occasionally wondered how much of a desktop machine one could build with Busybox (session clean-up bugs in wget notwithstanding).

And, of course, as I use the Mac as my daily driver, holy shit I want something that just works well and continues to do so.

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good

Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where's the fun in that?

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#Comment Re: Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good made: 2024-10-09 01:06:01.278189+02 by: spc476 [edit history]

Or remaining employed. In the book Cyberpunk (by Bruce Bethke), there's a scene were the ops team go to Star Trek levels of hysteria in solving an "issue" but once the suits leave the room, they press a single button and it's all over.

I think about that often. If Alice at Acme solves a problem quickly with little fan fare, then no one notices and eventually, she's let go because what value does she provide? If Bob at Bacme takes weeks to solve the same problem as loudly and painfully as possible, it's noticed. We have to keep him around because otherwise the company might not survive.

Incentives matter, and in the top-town command economies that are companies, it's easy to see the wrong incentives being set.

#Comment Re: Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good made: 2024-10-11 13:32:41.964552+02 by: TheSHAD0W

IMO the only reason linux has triumphed over bsd is because more people are writing drivers for it.

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