Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Dec 2005 12:57 UTC, submitted by I_dont_have_an_osnew....
"FreeBSD is an enterprise-grade operating system that leaves little to be desired. Most people have tried Linux by now, but a surprisingly large number of people have not yet taken FreeBSD for a spin. Now may well be the optimal time to take the plunge, as FreeBSD 6.0 provides the same rock-solid stability for which FreeBSD is known, and also implements some outstanding new features."
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2005-10-25
*BSD is decent. It took a day or two for me to get it to install properly, but I got it working eventually.
And, when I was done, I ended up with a *nix system. Much like the RedHat I've been using forever, only not quite the same. Stuff wasn't where I'm used to it, so I found it a bit frustrating. Not BSD's fault, but not to its advantage, either.
At the end of the day, I ran out of time to "try it out" and I went back to my busy, heavily used production servers running RedHat Linux. Uptimes > 100 days is typical, even when heavy loads are experienced. (there's only rarely a correlation between system load and uptime)
So, it comes down to: Why should I switch? Yes, *BSD is good, solid, reliable, etc. But I use those exact adjectives to describe my RedHat AS servers!
OpenBSD has perhaps the best security record. But I can come reasonably close (and commercially viable) using some basic rules of security best practices, including frequent and regular patching, which takes all of 5 minutes or less. And, virtually everywhere I go, I find that tech support that is RedHat certified, MCSE, but nothing else.
So, I've tried *BSD, and was impressed. But not enough to put out the effort and pain to switch some 25 servers from RedHat derivatives over to *BSD. Give me a compelling reason, and I might consider it. Untill then, Linux is my platform of choice!