Thread 106290615

Why should I prefer *BSD over Linux on my serverinos? What BSD can do what Linux can't?

>pic
Time to get the tape backups.

>>106290615 (OP)
It usually boils down to this: choose what makes you comfortable and confident about maintaining it.

>>106290615 (OP)
> doesn't alias rm to rm -i to prompt for every removal
some people deserve to eat shit.

>>106290615 (OP)
>not using set -u

>>106290615 (OP)
look, im a midwit and don't know shit about hosting servers. but rm -rf is a dangerous command, you gotta use it with care.
i dunno, you could cd to dirs with contents to delete, check that you're in a dir you want (defined literally), run rm -rf *, pop back where you where and jump to the next dir. even this retardation is better than what that guy did.
>what bsd can do that linux doesnt
it can have autistic devs instead of redhat poettering shills, a license which's so free it circles back to proprietary, jails, an ability to run on a toaster i guess

>>106290615 (OP)
>pic
>Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, rm -rf
>How can I recover in a timely manner
Should have immediately disconnected the servers, then downloaded and run a copy of testdisk on all disks. Now it's too late, probably. Time to hire a professional recovery service

omegalul

>>106290615 (OP)
I'm in the process of shutting down my hosting business.
You should use BSD to teach you clear thinking and good organizing.

>>106290615 (OP)
kqueue used to be an order of magnitude more efficient than epoll. I think the situation has changed, but that was why WhatsApp and other network-heavy installs historically preferred BSD.

BSD jails are arguably better than chroot containers too.

>>106291381
linux has had namespaces for long time now

at least Linux can run docker (or podman if you prefer) containers natively.
>just install VIrtualBox and run it inside a linux vm bro!
lol bsdcucks.

>>106292896
freebsd can run linux cointainers using podman

>>106290615 (OP)
>pic
that's some >"evul larry the cat touches you" tier horror.

>>106290844
>prompt
>in automation
what? should he add ` | yes` after it as well?

>>106292896
>virtualbox
holy retard thats never used bsd

How do you not have extensive automated tests for the scripts though, considering that you know they'll perform potentially dangerous tasks.

>>106290615 (OP)
you shouldn't, necessarily
there are advantages and disadvantages, as with every software choice
OpenBSD is reasonably secure by default, but can suffer from performance issues for some workloads, and you start chipping away at the "secure by default" business by installing third party packages
but if you can stick with their native httpd, OpenSMTPD, and OpenSSH, maybe that's a good choice
NetBSD can run on obscure architectures, which is probably irrelevant to your use case
FreeBSD has ZFS natively and supports heavy networking loads, but isn't nearly as secure by default as OpenBSD
if your question isn't just OS flamewar bait, describe your use case

>>106290968
that or at least :?
:? instead of ? because empty vars are just as dangerous for this usecase.

>>106292896
um, AKSUALLY ANON Windows can and can also run non-control-plane workloads in Kubernetes too.

>>106294130
>but if you can stick with their native httpd, OpenSMTPD, and OpenSSH, maybe that's a good choice
last remote hole was caused by OpenSMTPD though. why do people believe the retarded hype around OpenBSD?

>>106290844
Do rm -i -rf / and eat shit yourself

>>106294342
https://app.opencve.io/cve/?q=vendor%3Aexim