Just want to say thank you to the developers and folks supporting FreeBSD for a making such a great, simple and effective OS. I have been working on a particularly tough problem over the last couple weeks and today it became evident that I needed to fire up an FTP server for an install process to pull from. No problem I figured, my workstation is Slackware so I'll just set up a quick host on my machine. It's been a couple years since I've done it but remembered it being simple.
Long story short, after having set the few settings I needed to start up my FTP server was erroring. Spent 35 minutes online troubleshooting, all the while puzzling over how on Earth I could have screwed up something so simple. I then remembered I have a FreeBSD VirtualBox running so quickly set that up to serve the files to the process I'm working on. Literally 5 minutes.
It may be just me but I am finding things becoming more and more complex and obscure in Linux. The general trend in Linux distros seems to be sliding towards chaos in my (somewhat uninformed) opinion, and find myself appreciating more and more the simple cohesion and continuity that FreeBSD offers.
Once again, thank you FreeBSD developers.
Long story short, after having set the few settings I needed to start up my FTP server was erroring. Spent 35 minutes online troubleshooting, all the while puzzling over how on Earth I could have screwed up something so simple. I then remembered I have a FreeBSD VirtualBox running so quickly set that up to serve the files to the process I'm working on. Literally 5 minutes.
It may be just me but I am finding things becoming more and more complex and obscure in Linux. The general trend in Linux distros seems to be sliding towards chaos in my (somewhat uninformed) opinion, and find myself appreciating more and more the simple cohesion and continuity that FreeBSD offers.
Once again, thank you FreeBSD developers.