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> Everything Linux can do, I can do in FreeBSD. What features are you missing from FreeBSD? I've been a FreeBSD user since 4.3. I've supplied commercial suppor
by aforwardslash 2y ago
> Everything Linux can do, I can do in FreeBSD. What features are you missing from FreeBSD?
I've been a FreeBSD user since 4.3.
I've supplied commercial support for FreeBSD and OpenBSD solutions. I've done development for many years using FreeBSD VM's (mostly on windows, because I like properly rendered fonts and a working copy/paste).
Around 6 years ago I just switched to linux as a main system, as I had just switched jobs . Meanwhile, my main desktop and work machine runs linux. Let me give you a list of reasons that are definitely FreeBSD's fault:
- LUKS (multi-key)
- Modern graphical support (sort of just works - I use Xorg);
official nvidia drivers with a 6 year old card
- recent DE (Kubuntu)
- Virtualbox support
- Docker or KVM support
- UTF-8 as a default
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Half of these aren't server requirements - I still run some FreeBSD machines; but any GUI usage is just...crap. For the rest, there isnt an upper leg anymore - linux has Dtrace, pretty stable ZFS, and better scalability on heavily multithreaded/smp applications.
FreeBSD is sill strong on the edge networking, partially because it doesn't have the linux complexity; that will change sooner or later. Sooner, I'd guess.
Unfortunately. I f*** love FreeBSD.
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