Why sudden surge of FreeBSD-related posts?
Did anything special or new happened on FreeBSD land?
Did anything special or new happened on FreeBSD land?
Can you elaborate?
Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 (hypha.pub) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108989
Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic (hayzam.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113527
There's exactly one in the post. It's ten non-blank/non-comment lines, and the author says of it
This is not well designed but it gets the job done.
My least favorite thing to see in the world is a Ruby, (worse) Python, or (much worse) Go program that could have been a very simple shell script.When my sysadmin programs get more complicated, I reach for something more suited (like Erlang), but if the shell script is simple and only has deps on other standalone programs, then I write a shell program.
FreeBSD is great - good to see it get positive "airtime."