Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

The main complain of the author seems to be that linux use systemd.

In my experience, systemd is far better and more reliable than anything else, especially if you need complex logic (ex: when this and that happen, start doing this, except when such and such are present)

Most of the problems I've seen come from trying to duplicate systemd functions: in the author example, why bother with rsyslog or network-manager?

I have also seen many people refusing to learn modern tools, instead trying to make it work with the tools they know, by disabling what works better, often with poor results.

It's like trying to keep using ifconfig and route instead of ip: you can make it work, but for say managing multiple ip on the same interface forces you to go with eth0:0 eth0:1 etc (and let's not even talk about network namespaces).

I like the various BSD and distributions like postmarket OS, but I wish they had access to modern tools instead of having to "roll my own" with scripts or make do with what they depend on

> It's like trying to keep using ifconfig and route instead of ip: you can make it work, but for say managing multiple ip on the same interface forces you to go with eth0:0 eth0:1 etc (and let's not even talk about network namespaces).

On FreeBSD, ifconfig works fine for having multiple addresses on the same interface (and has since like forever?? I had multiple addresses on the same interface in 2004, and it's documented in the FreeBSD 1.0 man page) and it also manages configuration for wireless interfaces too. There's no need for new tools when there is already an appropriate tool that can be updated to do the job. Keeping the existing tools working means you don't need to retrain users and you don't need to update documentation that doesn't touch the new use cases.