FreeBSD has so many technical advantages over Linux. It's unfortunate that stupid things held it back in the day and caused Linux to be the one most-commonly adopted.
From the unified kernel and userland environment, to the fantastic ports system, to the documentation, to the ridiculous stability, to the performance, to ZFS, to the LACK OF SYSTEMD... I use it anytime I can. Unfortunately its lack of popularity hold back using it as a desktop (it can be done, but it's gotten to the point that so many things h
I used FreeBSD for 15+ years as a hosting platform for an ISP. It was very stable and reliable.
However, the clunkiness of maintaining updates has always been a problem and that's the dichotomy of FreeBSD. It's a very reliable OS, with an extremely user-unfriendly support system around it. So the stability and reliability attracts a lot of people to it, it's inability to be updated and maintained hassle-free alienates those same people. I ended up abandoning it
Love and use FreeBSD (Score:5, Insightful)
FreeBSD has so many technical advantages over Linux. It's unfortunate that stupid things held it back in the day and caused Linux to be the one most-commonly adopted.
From the unified kernel and userland environment, to the fantastic ports system, to the documentation, to the ridiculous stability, to the performance, to ZFS, to the LACK OF SYSTEMD... I use it anytime I can. Unfortunately its lack of popularity hold back using it as a desktop (it can be done, but it's gotten to the point that so many things h
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I agree with a lot of what you are saying.
I used FreeBSD for 15+ years as a hosting platform for an ISP. It was very stable and reliable.
However, the clunkiness of maintaining updates has always been a problem and that's the dichotomy of FreeBSD. It's a very reliable OS, with an extremely user-unfriendly support system around it. So the stability and reliability attracts a lot of people to it, it's inability to be updated and maintained hassle-free alienates those same people. I ended up abandoning it
Re: Love and use FreeBSD (Score:1)
I think it's been 15 years since you used a bsd. They have a very sane update path now.