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I use FreeBSD on my servers and for research for the following reasons: 1. The documentation is excellent. The man pages are well-written and have useful exa
by linguae 5y ago
I use FreeBSD on my servers and for research for the following reasons:
1. The documentation is excellent. The man pages are well-written and have useful examples, and the FreeBSD Handbook and Developer Guide are great resources.
2. First-class support for features such as ZFS and Dtrace.
3. This is a preference, but I like the BSDs' conservatism when it comes to adding new features. It seems that new features in the BSDs seem to be more in line with the Unix philosophy (similar to the Solaris and Joyent communities' attitudes), while the Linux community seems to be more willing to add features that may solve problems, but not necessarily in the way that some diehard Unix users would (e.g., PulseAudio, systemd).
With that being said, I use Linux for work and in the WSL environment on my Microsoft Surface tablet. Linux is also a great operating system, and sometimes I need to use Linux instead of FreeBSD for hardware and software support reasons (for example, I use CUDA for my job, which needs Linux).