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Hi,
A few would remember about this old thread, formerly entitled "
TrueOS compared to FreeBSD: a "True" disappointment
"
a foreword to this revision: the thread was opened in the grip of anguish, for having deleted my perfectly working FreeBSD installation, so as to embrace TrueOS, and following having broken my system after only a week of usage. In front of unavoidable kernel panics at boot, being completely ignorant about ZFS troubleshooting (I had barely managed to mount it from a live media), unable to figure out where the problem stood, I ended up switching back to FreeBSD; this implied compiling and configuring everything once again, and here came my unjustified resentment. Not only did I undeservedly bashed TrueOS, but I also made up many untrue/superficial statements which need to be revised
A couple of recent events brought me about to rewrite it from scratch:
So, even though I haven't run TrueOS ever since, basing on objective and mature considerations, my previous statements are revised as follows:
I'm thankful to those who had noticed this thread didn't belong to, nor suite these forums in the first place
A few would remember about this old thread, formerly entitled "
TrueOS compared to FreeBSD: a "True" disappointment
"
a foreword to this revision: the thread was opened in the grip of anguish, for having deleted my perfectly working FreeBSD installation, so as to embrace TrueOS, and following having broken my system after only a week of usage. In front of unavoidable kernel panics at boot, being completely ignorant about ZFS troubleshooting (I had barely managed to mount it from a live media), unable to figure out where the problem stood, I ended up switching back to FreeBSD; this implied compiling and configuring everything once again, and here came my unjustified resentment. Not only did I undeservedly bashed TrueOS, but I also made up many untrue/superficial statements which need to be revised
A couple of recent events brought me about to rewrite it from scratch:
- Debate on TrueOS was reopened recently on forum
- Above all, I noticed this thread being adressed on reddit, facebook and Linux forums. People took it very seriously, as if containing the undeniable Truth, and immediately discarded the option of trying TrueOS , regardless of official wiki and professional reviews. This thread has somehow vanified some of the efforts TrueOS developers are putting everyday into making this OS reach desktop users, and be perceived as a concrete alternative to Linux. This felt intolerable, and I apologize for such a gross mistake
So, even though I haven't run TrueOS ever since, basing on objective and mature considerations, my previous statements are revised as follows:
- I said that CURRENT snapshot's instability had lead me toward system break. Higly unlikely: At the beginning I had started installing software with pkgng, and only later discovered AppCafe and its pbis. After that, I stupidly began compiling software which was not in repos (and if it was not there, a reason there should have been) from CURRENT ports' tree. Later on, looking in the Update-Manager I was presented with the possibility of switching from stable snapshots, to nightly-builds (can't recall how were they referred, probably as testing/developer branch). Now I'd dare someone reproducing such a mess and still be able to boot system after a major upgrade
- I criticized service management for being a mess, and network configuration to be unclear and unreliable. That was a true lie. Clearly, being on OpenRC I how could I expect to correctly manage boot-time services and tasks eidting rc.conf, withouth accordingly touching conf files in /etc/openrc/conf.d/ : hostname, network, modules, keymaps, etc.... and and making use of
rc-update cmd <service> <runlevel>
? Having been a Gentoo user, I knew this all too well already, I could have immediatel worked it out, still I chose to blindly scorn TrueOS, just because I hadn't managed to find a thorough documentation around service management on their own FAQs
- I stated their display manager (PCDM) was buggy and didn't detect half of the Wms/DEs I installed: Did I read a man page, or a wiki reference to learn how it worked? At least to check whether it relies on a init script in $HOME, or just looks for .desktop entries in xsessions? Normally I would have, but I didn't, and became for a while the hipster all-knowing Arch Linux user, criticizing Ubuntu without the minimum cognition
- I downlooked boot time for being infinitely long. How was boot supposed to be fast, when I had put ZFS on a crappy old Celeron, with 2Gb RAM, with tons of unneeded services still enabled?
- I despised Lumina..however, hadn't I been a Lumina user way before ever trying TrueOS? It's true there are a couple of things I've never shared about its shape, but the truth it's I like it, and I've been liking it from the moment it was first announced, so that was really a cheap shot of me.
I'm thankful to those who had noticed this thread didn't belong to, nor suite these forums in the first place
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