Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 31st Jan 2003 00:09 UTC
Well, we all have used Unix, in one form or another (maybe even through embeded products). But which one is your favorite flavor of Unix-based/Unix-alike OSes? Read more and vote! Update: SHAME on you, who ever you are: Messing/hacking with go2poll's code and altering the results in favor of FreeBSD. By doing so, you are doing MORE BAD than good to your favorite platform.
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I use FreeBSD for the following reasons.
1) I originally used 386BSD when it first came out from which FreeBSD is derived.
2) Linux hardly registered on the radar at the time when I was deploying unix servers.
3) I am used the BSD file system organization (SunOS was close) and I prefer the BSD way of doing things over other unixes (SYS-V?)
4) we have a large installed base of FreeBSD servers.
5) The BSD sources have a much stronger pedigree than Linux does
6) it is free (as in beer)
7) it is not GPL
8) the BSD TCP/IP is IMHO the best in the world and it has taken a long time for Linux to catch up to it (if it has at all)
9) at certain times in its life Linux has been a security risk.
Points 3,5,6,8 and 9 factor highly for our deployment of servers in a commercial environment. we just can't afford to stuff around with buggy server software.
In practice, I only have room in my brain to learn one unix system. For that reason and because it fulfils my needs handsomely, I'll stick with FreeBSD. What is annoying is that the Linux hype has sucked away the development resources from what I believe to be the better open source solution to a unix OS. We have FreeBSD boxen that just keep on going. I guess I'd call FreeBSD the quiet achiever.
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