Came here to say this, basically. Especially when the author mentions federated, decentralised, interoperable servers, that's Mastodon/the Fediverse.

I think it will always be 20 years away.

According to https://w3techs.com/technologi..., "BSD is used by 0.2% of all the websites whose operating system we know."

So, not a large portion of websites by any stretch, but it's also not dead.

Old school - Yggdrasil!

I'd rather live in a time zone where the municipality/state/country doesn't have the asinine practice called "Daylight Savings Time." Then again, this isn't really related to the time zone.

If what you are looking to do is to replace NetWare with Linux running NetWare emulation, such as marsnwe, you might want to take into account that it "looks like" a NetWare 3.x server to the clients. Since you mention you have NetWare 4.1, this would actually be a "downgrade" for you. Now, migrating to Linux is a different thing. If you only use NetWare for storage and printing, then that shouldn't be too painful to replace it with Linux. You'd still have to use Samba to allow any Windows clients to access it as an NT server. Depending on the size of your organization, switching your clients over could be a long, drawn-out process. There may be an easier way to do this, with or without Samba, marsnwe, etc., but not that I'm aware of.