First, I have nothing but complete respect for Ken Thompson. May I observe that he gets his paycheck from Google, and they are a Linux shop.

If Ken worked for Yahoo or Netflix and installed FreeBSD, it would imply the exact same that you have inferred.

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I give this a secular Amen

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Careful there :-)

I still use telnet to verify Port 25. Telnet is largely replaced by SSH. But, I assure you SSH is used, by humans, 100K times per day and more

Thanks for the inputs. I did find several blogs that recommended specific new wifi cards (both the internal install type and the UCB plug type) I bought and installed 3 of them. They did show up on the install, but then never worked. Really could be a pilot error, but been using *BSD for 30 years

Sorry, I'm still getting used to the character limit. I tried to install FreeBSF on my new framework laptop about a year ago. And ran into the typical Wi-Fi issues. I bought several of the recommended replacement parts and plugged them in. They seem to work, but no Wi-Fi. For now FreeBSD on servers.

@secularmonk.org.za I know this is going to sound like an incompetent, but I'm usually pretty good at all these system issues. After all, I do manage multiple online cloud servers. And I read a lot of code. Been doing so for more than 30 years.

Thank you. Useful inputs. Much appreciated.

Currently, I am avoiding containers for several reasons. YMMV :-)

BTW, I like Sendmail, I'm just not smart enough to make work well. :-)

I don't know what your application is, but I have found some stars on Fiverr. And I hire a lot of this kind of talent. I usually start with a small, low cost project. Then hire 3 to 5 best choices. Usually one shiny star comes through and I hire them ongoing.