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Why FreeBSD
An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD operating system is the unknown giant among free operating systems. Starting out from the 386BSD project, it is an extremely fast UNIX-like operating system mostly for the Intel chip and its clones. In many ways, FreeBSD has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux-based operating systems should have been. It runs on out-of-date Intel machines and 64-bit AMD chips, and it serves terabytes of files a day on some of the largest file servers on earth."
- You need to track security updates for kernel, base and ports and apply them in different manners
- Package management is a decade behind what rpm and dpkg have to offer
- It's essentially a DIY kit to build an OS. I just want an OS.
- Building ports takes ages, time I don't have
- Building ports takes resources. Resources I want to use for the server's core buisiness. Which is not compiling ports.
- Bad documentation. The official freebsd manual often explains the most time consuming, error prone way of doing things. Later you'll find out there are many convienient ports to perform common tasks.
- No journalled filesystems. Yeah, it's really scary to remotely kill the power of a crashed machine.
The only really good thing of freebsd seems to be the kernel. The userspace is really amateurish though.This is your sig. There are thousands more, but this one is yours.
Smells like an advertisement.
Follow the money,
the path ain't long.