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For me (network/server guy for a small ISP, with complete decision-making authority in this context), I'd love to run FreeBSD on all my servers and OpenBSD on a
by jlgaddis 10y ago
For me (network/server guy for a small ISP, with complete decision-making authority in this context), I'd love to run FreeBSD on all my servers and OpenBSD on all my routers (even though I (mostly) make my living from my Cisco knowledge).
Here at home, within a six foot radius of me, I've got a nice new (waaaay overbuilt) workstation, a pair of ThinkPads, some cheap Dell laptop, and a rMBP. The Dell and rMBP are rarely used but I had to decide what to run on my three "primary" machines (and the couple of neglected machines in the garage).
I'd much prefer to run FreeBSD everywhere but suspend/resume on the laptops is a deal breaker for me. I could run FreeBSD on the workstation (which is always running) but then I've got two operating systems to keep up on instead of one, so instead I just run Linux on all of them.
At work, on the servers, my line of thinking is basically the same. I pretty much have to run Linux (over BSD) in a few cases, so do I run FreeBSD where I can and Linux everywhere else or just make things easier on myself and run Linux across the board? Since I'm already running Linux on all my personal machines it makes sense to use the same at work.
- phicoh 10y agoThere are certainly ThinkPads where suspend/resume works with FreeBSD.