"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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Member since:Quote from http://www.bsdatwork.com/2004/06/11/freebsd_stealth_growth_project/
Paul Vixie is lead engineer at the ISC (Internet systems consortium), the organisation that wrote the DNS server BIND and maintains large portions of the internet infrastructure. Vixie's been around forever, since the beginning of networked computers basically.
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FreeBSD does, however, remain a factor in the infrastructure of the Internet itself, at least according to the founder of the ISC, the group that produces BIND, the dominant DNS tool of the Internet.
"On the one hand we applaud Linux for coming out of nowhere so late in the game and creating a robust industry based on open source concepts," said Paul Vixie, board chairman for ISC. "Furthermore, ISC hosts the main Linux kernel distribution server [kernel.org] as our way of helping the Linux community continue to thrive," he said.
"On the other hand we use FreeBSD exclusively for f-root (in 21 cities now, usually with three servers per city) and all of our other servers and internal development," Vixie explained. "We like the age of the platform. BSD has existed since the late 1970's and modern FreeBSD is extremely refined and mature."
The ISC also hosts the entire NetBSD project as well as an OpenBSD mirror and the only Ipv6-accessible FreeBSD mirror. In short, FreeBSD remains a critical part of the ISC's infrastructure.
"ISC could not exist in our current form without being able to leverage FreeBSD's strengths as we do," Vixie added.
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"Well, just so you know, FreeBSD exclusively power the F-root servers for the internet. It's basically a large cluster of FreeBSD machines running BIND with extremely high availability to power DNS requests from around the world. That sounds like Enterprise-Grade to me. Linux is also enterprise-grade."
Can you give us some evidence?