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FreeBSD is starting to look really good.

I would agree that BSD systems are nicer to look at, and FreeBSD supporting major releases for five years, with forcing people to install point releases once a year is really quite nice.

But I don't see BSD becoming practical as a platform to run (commercial enterprise) Linux software, when it's already a pain to get packages and support for anything that's not RHEL/CentOS.

It's not ideal, but you can run Linux software on FreeBSD. Commercial enterprise tends to be conservative and not need bleeding edge Linux interfaces that may not be available through the linux emulation layer yet.

I agree. I've been seeing more and more about the BSD's online recently, and to be quite honest, I'm happy about that.

Just installed OpenBSD for the first time the other day, and am loving it.

This might help you on your start:

https://github.com/liv-io/ansible-roles-bsd

Looks like a nice resource, many thanks!

What are the usual roadblocks for people?

Needing VMs to perform well, comparably to KVM/Xen, would be a blocker for going BSD.

Jails are awesome but not containers you're blocked there as well (if you need containers and the tooling around them).

>VMs to perform well, comparably to KVM/Xen

Bhyve performs very well.

>Jails are awesome but not containers you're blocked there as well

What are containers? Ansible with OS-Virtualisation right? So with Jails and Salt/Ansible/puppet or Templates you have your Containers.

OR just take that:

https://bastillebsd.org/

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