Looking for wannabe FreeBSD/EC2 users

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-04-05-FreeBSD-EC2.html

by hasanove • 16 years ago

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fierarul• 16 years ago

I presume the only thing I would like to check out on FreeBSD is dtrace. The 2nd thing would be perhaps something related to ZFS.

jcsalterego2• 16 years ago

Interesting you should mention those technologies, as they both originated from Sun and have been ported elsewhere. While FreeBSD's ZFS is a solid port and probably the best non-Sun implementation, it's actually a few versions behind.

It might be worth checking out OpenSolaris, despite its future seeming to be up in the air, with Oracle's acquisition of Sun.

jaaron2• 16 years ago

And you can already run OpenSolaris on EC2.

X-Istence2• 16 years ago

I've wanted to use EC2 for some projects, however I don't like using Linux, so if FreeBSD would work on EC2 it would certainly help get me using Amazon's services.

However because I am currently unemployed I do not have any money to put into development, and all my projects that require a positive cash flow have been put on the backburner.

jaaron2• 16 years ago

OpenSolaris already works on EC2. Have you considered that?

X-Istence2• 16 years ago

Yes, I have, and I run an OpenSolaris machine at home as my file server.

The issue I have with OpenSolaris is that if you stick to their /release PKG tree you don't get any security updates what so ever, if you however track the /dev PKG tree you get experimental updates, that may or may not break functionality you need.

cperciva2• 16 years ago

Please send me an email anyway -- whether people can provide funding is one measure of community interest, but definitely not the only one.

epi0Bauqu• 16 years ago

You mention funding for development. What amount would cover it and what is a meaningful amount?

I'm one of those people that bugged you on the AWS forums about this :). I run FreeBSD on my servers but have had to compromise on EC2 (running Ubuntu now).

cperciva2• 16 years ago

I'm not sure exactly how much funding is necessary; but it's not a big number on the scale of internet startups.

Please send me an email. :-)

pavs3• 16 years ago

Can anyone tell me the benefits of freebsd over popular Linux server distros (Ubuntu/centos/rhel)?

borism2• 16 years ago

not being "popular linux distro" can be a benefit perhaps?

otherwise, I don't see what difference does it make what kernel you're running. matter of taste

kree10• 16 years ago

For me, it's not really about the kernel but the whole OS, userland included. I agree it's still mostly matter of taste, or maybe more honestly, what you're used to.

Some people really like apt-get/dpkg but I prefer working with "make buildworld/installworld" and the ports system on FreeBSD.

Also, though it's not something I've taken advantage of much, I love how on FreeBSD I can "cd /usr/src/bin/ls" and hey: there's the source for ls! If I wanted to, I could hack it, and run "make install" right there. I prefer this over (for example) source packages with Doogie's Build System on Debian.

dalore• 16 years ago

Licensing. The BSD license is less restrictive than the GPL.

pavs3• 16 years ago

Can you give a non-hypothetical real-life scenario where Freebsd with BSD license helps over GPL license based linux-distro when running a server?

I am genuinely curious.

kvs2• 16 years ago

When your team sort of grew up with FreeBSD (or any other OS) you want to lean that way. Also, when you're shipping an appliance you don't have to think about licenses. Those are the two reasons we stick with FreeBSD.

pavs3• 16 years ago

Thanks. That makes sense.

I am not familiar with limitations of GPL license over BSD license. What limitation does GPL license have that you don't have to worry about with BSD when deploying your app on a Linux server?

Edit: Answered elsewhere. Thanks.

jcsalterego2• 16 years ago

Prime example: NetApp uses (and contributes back to) FreeBSD.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1042664.htm (minor mention)

Looking for wannabe FreeBSD/EC2 users

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