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Need a workstation to develop the software for your FreeBSD server? - use Linux for the workstation and compile it on a FreeBSD build server. (I'm not ki
by vorador 14y ago
Need a workstation to develop the software
for your FreeBSD server? - use Linux for the workstation
and compile it on a FreeBSD build server.
(I'm not kidding.. I actually use this setup for work...)
Can I ask why do you use a FreeBSD server ? Do you use it for bsd features likes jails or dtrace ?
I've always wanted to try freebsd but I don't really know how it would be better on a server than, say, debian.
- rgbrenner 14y agoThere are some things like ZFS, that keep me on FBSD.. but that's only 2 of my servers. The biggest reasons are that it's what I know; and that I have a collection of software projects created over the past 15 years that run on FBSD, most of which do not compile cleanly in Linux or have fbsd-specific dependencies. So until I port them, FBSD is the only option. I'm not the best person to ask to advocate FBSD. I'm planning a switch to Debian over the next year or so. Later this year, I'm planning to switch my mail servers and database servers to Debian (since those don't rely on my code). Then the porting should be finished, and everything else will switch except the ZFS servers. The ZFS servers should be gone by mid-2014. Why? Lack of virtualization support is the biggest problem.