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> All I care about is that stuff just works for as many years as possible, gets security updates and does not break I would go with FreeBSD or Debian.
by davorb 11y ago
> All I care about is that stuff just works for as many years as possible, gets security updates and does not break
I would go with FreeBSD or Debian.
- david-given 11y agoWhy not do both? https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
- justincormack 11y agoBecause FreeBSD has really good community support and great documentation, while Debian kFreeBSD is a tiny community. And I really do not see the point - the GNU userspace is mostly available in ports if you want it on freebsd, but the FreeBSD userspace is generally as good.
- ohjesusthatguy2 11y ago"Finally, the Debian ports to the FreeBSD kernel, kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386, included as technology previews in Debian 6.0 and Debian 7, are not part of this release."[0] [0]https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/...
- toast0 11y agoIt's an interesting port, but things don't just work. There's a lot of fiddling around when parts of the system expect gnu utilities that aren't available on FreeBSD, and the BSD utilities work differently. Ifconfig for example does the same job, but in different ways, so stories won't work, etc.