I ordered the hard copy, but for those with Kindle Unlimited....it's available there.

KU is for escape not text for me, so I'll wait for the book.

I'm waiting on my physical copy, but, yes the writing style from a native German can be odd at times (the ex was german).

The poster is trying to get karma being "contrairian".

VV pubished the site a couple weeks back on L*nkedin. It was a distraction for me as well.

I'll look into this a bit. But...

"Github has way too little projects"... I had PRs against stinkpad wireless drivers in 1999/2000 time frame - FreeBSD specific. Do I expect those to be around? No.

Do I think 20+ years of working for commercial companies means I have a splendid GH resume - absolutely not.

Using your logic for HN, 140 karma, ignore.

VV has been in the community awhile (I'm not active, but watch). AI slop isn't a thing, trolling for top of HN is.

“The community” - which community? Where? This is a brand new website, there’s next to no online presence for the name (all seemingly unrelated).

It reads like using LLMs to fake some credibility

I stopped using it because the interface was wretched and it didn't need to be cutesy. Rsync found it's way back into the tool belt.

qwen3.5 27b w/ 4bit quant works reasonably on a 3090.

It’s marginally better than Microsoft naming things.

You mean you're not excited to use Copilot Chat in the Microsoft 365 Copilot App??

(This is the real, official name for the AI button in Office)

Microsoft 365 Copilot For Business? (which isn't real - but yeah, the naming is...)

California now requires some parts of- like shotgun barrels to go through an ffl.

But docker!

I've been using jails/etc and the pattern with way I setup and configure my FreeBSD servers hasn't significantly changed in 20 years.

>But docker

Maybe one day! One of the things that has changed in the past 20 years with FreeBSD is the addition of bhyve. Virtualization on FreeBSD was not great prior to bhyve. Because FreeBSD waited to implement it, they ended up with an arguably more modern hypervisor versus what Linux had at the time. Maybe history will repeat when it comes to application containers / docker images. Podman came 5 years after Docker and the result was better. It could happen with FreeBSD too.

Wow, searched this thread for docker hoping to realize I was behind the times and thinking surely it must work by now. It's so crazy that the BSDs have a reputation for stable, implying sysadmins and servers, then it won't support the one thing that every server needs. VMs running linux is the preferred path of least resistance then? Honestly you'd have to work hard to find a better way to alienate your target audience.

Jails is far superior to the kludge that is docker. “Every server” only needs docker if you’re asking the wrong questions

I'm sure it will be a great comfort to the last person left who knows what a jail is

I believe FreeBSD will make a comeback on the server. But you do you.

CUDA gets into an area that I wouldn't use it for. My local LLM machine is running Void linux.

Yes; linux is generally supported better than freebsd. CUDA and Docker work out of the box on linux. Linux has better graphics drivers and steam support. Opensource software (libraries, tools) are much more likely to be tested & work properly on linux. I've also run into several rust crates which don't build on freebsd - particularly crates which depend on C code.

But the comment you're replying to said there weren't many good technical reasons to prefer freebsd over linux. I think that's broadly true.

I still really like freebsd though. Unlike linux, one community is responsible for the kernel and userspace. That makes the whole OS feel much more cohesive. You don't have to worry about supporting 18 different distributions, which all do their own thing.

FreeBSD's development philosophy, it's aversion to design decisions like - we must allow systemd everywhere, stability, zfs and jails, consistent configuration (for decades) are all technical reasons I prefer it over Linux.

How about Ubuntu and snaps? License needed for certain security updates, etc.