[BUGS] Hello

[Peter Ross]

Hi everyone,

I am a member of a FreeBSD list in Germany and one home here in 
Victoria. Both seem to be quiet or defunct. We had regular social 
dinners in North Richmond but that does not happen for years, AFAIK.

On the German mailing list I see once in a while an announcement of a 
local group meeting, e.g. in Hamburg but it's obviously out of range.

The Linux Users Victoria (LUV) are still active.

Is it that use of the BSDs has declined? I don't know but I barely see 
it around me these days.

But there are also forums etc. which I never joined. I am not sure 
whether that is where the action is now.

A short summary of my own FreeBSD experience over the last years.

At work i deal with Linux (currently Ubuntu) in my everyday job, using 
containers etc.

I am working with pfSense which is a FreeBSD-based firewall project. We 
used FreeNAS but we moved to Ubuntu and ZFS a while ago, mainly because 
nearly all other systems are Ubuntu. A lot of backups and DR etc. are 
using ZFS and its features, encryption, compression etc.

We are also use Linux containers and I am quite often reminded of 
FreeBSD jails. I was writing for own use a jail-based framework, from 
2011-15. That is actually the last time I really used FreeBSD.

A private server is still running on FreeBSD but I don't maintain it 
particular well. Every time I do something with the scripts I wrote 
years ago, to update/replace the jails, I need an hour to remember what 
I did earlier.

I would be interested to know what others do/don't do with BSD.

Cheers

Peter