On 03/06/2016 07:26, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 02/06/2016 21:08, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
It's not fair to compare RedHat to FreeBSD. Companies pay good money to
maintain the support for the systems they are using. They don't pay
FreeBSD a penny. I think the real issue preventing a wider adoption at
companies is not that there is no LTS but that there is no commercial
entity that would maintain its own LTS version of FreeBSD base and
packages and make it available to companies with paid support options.
There are only companies who can provide general support for FreeBSD as
a service.
Have you heard about what Xinuos are doing with FreeBSD?
http://www.xinuos.com/menu-products/openserver-10
Xinuos' whole ethos is in providing long term commercial support, and
their new platform is built on FreeBSD.
Cheers,
Matthew
Well, that certainly looks very good and I am glad such companies exist,
but it's not exactly what I was referring to. Do they actually maintain
their own package repository? They mention Xinuos Application Collection
for paid service but nowhere on the site I could find what is actually
included in that set. And consider that the packages RedHat maintains
are publicly available for anyone to download (as source, but still).
CentOS is actually using them to create free binary-compatible RedHat
replacements.
I don't have anything against their business model and Linux environment
is quite different to FreeBSD, not only because of the license. I am
just noting that's hard to compare RedHat to FreeBSD companies and to me
Xinuos doesn't look like RedHat like-for-like in the BSD world (yet).
Grzegorz
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