What FreeBSD can offer to other operating systems? (2020)

• freebsd-src

  133 7,516 10.0 C

  The FreeBSD src tree publish-only repository. Experimenting with 'simple' pull requests....

  

>Service managers should take care of things like figuring out where stdout and stderr logs are sent to, so you shouldn't have to do that stuff in your service scripts.

You don't have to. The fact that Linux had anachronisms like that wasn't because of shell scripts, it's an entirely orthogonal issue; a typical rc script in, say, FreeBSD, looks like this: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/libexec/rc/.... It's declarative, it's easy to understand, but it also provides you with flexibility when you need it, as opposed to one-off hacks with custom, fixed functionality and random syntax.

• bastille

  26 767 7.7 Shell

  Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.

  

>I guess it's only Docker that bothers me then.

https://bastillebsd.org/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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