CONSIDERING DRAGONFLYBSD TO HOST OLD POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEM (doubts)

[Justin Sherrill]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:33 PM, brau <brauningbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> CONSIDERING DRAGONFLYBSD TO HOST OLD POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEM (doubts)
>
> I have been following the project advances since almost 2 years.  At that
> time I installed it once on VM and tested it for a few days. From
> that time I kept reading and following news and material about its
> advancements.
>

A couple of points:

- Going by what you describe, you aren't looking for DragonFly, you're
looking for qemu. The software you need is going to be run in a virtual
system, and that's what you need to pay attention to - the operating system
hosting that isn't necessarily any particular advantage.  DragonFly has
some very specific advantages, but virtualization systems exist
specifically to smooth away features of the underlying system.  You may
want some sort of hypervisor or VMWare Workstation, or similar, rather than
any particular operating system.

- Periodic Hammer maintenance will not trash your disks.  Matt's had SSDs
running nightly maintenance and _extensive_ data activity for months and
months, and they've come through unscathed.  Platter hard drives will be
fine.

- I've been running DragonFly for years on shiningsilence.com, and I have
had exactly 1 stability issue a few years ago, involving php and release
3.2, that was fixed within a day or two.  I have only this anecdotal note
to counter your experience with crashes, but I don't know why you've had
those problems.
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