On Apr 15, 2017, at 12:19 AM, Anthony K wrote:
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> Also, there's a lot of people moving to FreeBSD - but it appears that the
> grass isn't greener there either as they are now trialling OpenRC.
You appear to have misunderstood my post.
First, TrueOS is not FreeBSD. TrueOS is to FreeBSD as Ubuntu is to Debian,
kinda-sorta. Some of the things the TrueOS people do make their way back into
FreeBSD, but TrueOS largely exists for those who want an easier desktop
experience than stock FreeBSD or want a semi-supported bleeding-edge
distribution of FreeBSD.
Now that TrueOS is based on the CURRENT (i.e. bleeding-edge) branch of FreeBSD
development, TrueOS also serves a pioneer role for FreeBSD: those being the
guys with all the arrows in their backs.
Because of that, TrueOS’s adoption of OpenRC doesn’t mean FreeBSD will follow
suit. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t.
Second, it’s not a “trial”. It was announced, and then suddenly between two
versions BSD rc was switched to OpenRC. No “are you sure,” no “here are the
consequences,” no “sorry, what you’re doing here is incompatible.” Just boom,
best-effort automatic conversion; if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
(Kinda makes you smile when you remember all the threads from those who found
out that RHEL family OSes can’t self-upgrade between major versions. Suddenly
it’s looking like a feature. Imagine if the EL6 to EL7 transition happened the
same way.)
FreeBSD proper splits the difference between these two upgrade methods. You
have to explicitly opt into minor version upgrades, and automatic major version
upgrades are possible but always offered with plenty of warnings and migration
advice.
If you want a FreeBSD-specific lesson from this, it would be “don't run
12.0-CURRENT on critical servers.”
Also, I’ll remind the list that one of the *prior* times the systemd topic came
up, I was the one reminding people that most of our jobs summarize as “Cope
with change.”
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