It's a real pity that FreeBSD and the BSDs in general don't get more love from Slashdot. Linux seems to have stolen the thunder from the BSD camp, but in all honesty, FreeBSD rocks. It makes a far better server than Linux for the vast majority of cases. I used to run BSD servers, both FreeBSD and BSD/OS back in the day. Never, ever had an issue save for HW failures. Cannot say the same for Linux on identical HW. FreeBSD handles load that bring Linux to its knees. I've always agreed with the statement that "
It's a real pity that FreeBSD and the BSDs in general don't get more love from Slashdot. Linux seems to have stolen the thunder from the BSD camp, but in all honesty, FreeBSD rocks. It makes a far better server than Linux for the vast majority of cases. I used to run BSD servers, both FreeBSD and BSD/OS back in the day. Never, ever had an issue save for HW failures. Cannot say the same for Linux on identical HW. FreeBSD handles load that bring Linux to its knees. I've always agreed with the statement that "Linux is hacked together, while FreeBSD is engineered". In general, I think the BSDs are better written pieces of software.
Well, since the systemd saga began, FreeBSD has been getting a lot more respect from a good section of the Linux crowd that hates systemd. OpenBSD gets it as well particularly from people w/ old RISC based Unixstations, since they are the only ones still maintaining those old platforms.
I did my first Linux installs in 1997 (slack/redhat), and first Debian install in early 2008. I used Debian as my primary OS from 2009-2015 initially as a user and after a few years as a fully-fledged developer. I started investigating options for moving away from Debian around the end of 2013-early 2014, and migrated all my local data to a FreeBSD NAS in Jan 2014. As I learned more about it, the more I liked it. While it's fair to say that systemd was the primary impetus for looking for a replacement,
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Really like FreeBSD (Score:5, Interesting)
It's a real pity that FreeBSD and the BSDs in general don't get more love from Slashdot. Linux seems to have stolen the thunder from the BSD camp, but in all honesty, FreeBSD rocks. It makes a far better server than Linux for the vast majority of cases. I used to run BSD servers, both FreeBSD and BSD/OS back in the day. Never, ever had an issue save for HW failures. Cannot say the same for Linux on identical HW. FreeBSD handles load that bring Linux to its knees. I've always agreed with the statement that "
Re:Really like FreeBSD (Score:2)
It's a real pity that FreeBSD and the BSDs in general don't get more love from Slashdot. Linux seems to have stolen the thunder from the BSD camp, but in all honesty, FreeBSD rocks. It makes a far better server than Linux for the vast majority of cases. I used to run BSD servers, both FreeBSD and BSD/OS back in the day. Never, ever had an issue save for HW failures. Cannot say the same for Linux on identical HW. FreeBSD handles load that bring Linux to its knees. I've always agreed with the statement that "Linux is hacked together, while FreeBSD is engineered". In general, I think the BSDs are better written pieces of software.
Well, since the systemd saga began, FreeBSD has been getting a lot more respect from a good section of the Linux crowd that hates systemd. OpenBSD gets it as well particularly from people w/ old RISC based Unixstations, since they are the only ones still maintaining those old platforms.
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I did my first Linux installs in 1997 (slack/redhat), and first Debian install in early 2008. I used Debian as my primary OS from 2009-2015 initially as a user and after a few years as a fully-fledged developer. I started investigating options for moving away from Debian around the end of 2013-early 2014, and migrated all my local data to a FreeBSD NAS in Jan 2014. As I learned more about it, the more I liked it. While it's fair to say that systemd was the primary impetus for looking for a replacement,