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An alternative OS for an heterogeneous infrastructure. For example, when there is a security bug in Linux you can shutdown those servers and spin up FreeBSD on

An alternative OS for an heterogeneous infrastructure. For example, when there is a security bug in Linux you can shutdown those servers and spin up FreeBSD ones while the patch is being made.

hobo_mark 4y ago
I guess that makes some sense if you were already running both operating systems in production. Maintaining an alternative stack would be almost twice the work otherwise.
- efortis 4y ago
  It depends on the risk. Sometimes shutting down vulnerable servers is not worth it.