Technological advantages over Linux

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 12:48:07 -0600
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> I can see two opposite attitudes here locally. Being sysadmin I am 100%
> with Michael: I do not want/trust to run something created by somebody
> else and not necessarily thoroughly audited. I do feel fully responsible
> for whatever happens because of my actions/choices. So, I build BreeBSD
> jails, not even using ezjail, just “by the book”, and install/configure
> inside what is necessary.

	Yep the typical good sysadmins view.

> Majority of scientists I work for here are more or less with Ottavio:

	s/scientists/users/ and you'll be good almost anywhere.

> they will run everything that they find lying there on the Internet what
> is said doing what they need done. And they are entitled to that

	They'd all be happier with a well curated set of handy tools - if
somebody finds one for them and makes it easy to use.

> attitude, in a sense that they have better things to do: their science,
> and spending time on anything else just steals time from doing science.

	Quite right too.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>