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To chime in bit on FreeBSD, going Linux -> FreeBSD can be relatively painless, and FreeBSD will be a good place to stop if there is no further need of performan
by hrktb 12y ago
To chime in bit on FreeBSD, going Linux -> FreeBSD can be relatively painless, and FreeBSD will be a good place to stop if there is no further need of performance/purity/cleanness.
The was a time it was the only blessed BSD distribution for Java, unicode support has been pretty good for years, the ports management is easy and forgiving, documentation is generally clean and complete, help resources have a polite and professional feel.
In general there are stronger alternatives for a production server (OpenSBD definitively) but it's a very nice environment for a workstation or development server.
- kfcm 12y agoFreeBSD is an excellent production server, and I use it all the time. And for "non-hardened" and "protected" production servers, the performance numbers went solidly to FreeBSD for my use cases. Modifying the kernel from GENERIC to something specific to one's needs also helps. That said, I'm also OpenBSD fan, using it as a "hardened" (Internet facing) production server, with minimal ports, for things like Postfix, DNS, etc. OpenBSD is also well used in network management/control as a router, firewall, etc. Each has its use case, and does quite well in them.