It's sad to see that FreeBSD rehashes the same arguments they used at least since 2005 (I actually couldn't believe that the article is written in 2020) and completely ignore all the innovation that Linux has undergone since then. My favourite:
KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) makes graphical UI a first-class citizen and Linux a solid desktop foundation. Did FreeBSD finally catch up here?
Cgroups and namespaces together with a COW filesystem makes Linux a solid foundation for containers. I used jails back in 2009 and, honestly, its vision was incomplete. For n jails you needed n copies of the userspace. You couldn't use lo0 property, etc etc. Jails felt both too restricted and insufficiently isolated from one another. Has anything changed since then?
I really wished FreeBSD stopped glorifying its past and was realistically looking at its current position in the OS landscape. Until that changes, FreeBSD will be both a lacking desktop OS and a lacking server OS for my daily work.
KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) makes graphical UI a first-class citizen and Linux a solid desktop foundation. Did FreeBSD finally catch up here?
Cgroups and namespaces together with a COW filesystem makes Linux a solid foundation for containers. I used jails back in 2009 and, honestly, its vision was incomplete. For n jails you needed n copies of the userspace. You couldn't use lo0 property, etc etc. Jails felt both too restricted and insufficiently isolated from one another. Has anything changed since then?
I really wished FreeBSD stopped glorifying its past and was realistically looking at its current position in the OS landscape. Until that changes, FreeBSD will be both a lacking desktop OS and a lacking server OS for my daily work.