Hi, One guys real world example:
I used to use FreeBSD exclusively for all the servers at my ISP. They were very solid and uptime's of 3 or 4 or more years is not uncommon. When tuned properly they are also very fast. One comment is that their "packaged" software repositories are not "bleeding edge". This isn't a problem for a production system that doesn't need to have the latest software apps. The problems I encountered as I started building my VoIP service was that much of the software is "leading edge" and most developers use Linux as a base rather than FreeBSD. This caused me to spend more time to "tweak" the software for FreeBSD than I liked. As a result, I moved the VoIP systems over to Linux (Debian) from FreeBSD. Years ago, Linux distro's were very insecure "out of the box" and needed to be locked down before even connecting them to the Net. One evening I installed a Linux distro and left it connected to the Net (with zero local changes other than IP address). The next morning, a rootkit had already been installed...that was a few years ago, and thankfully things have changed. We still have a couple of FreeBSD production servers, that are many years old. When the need arises to make any substantial changes to them we will convert them over to Linux. Now, how to ditch the m$ boxes !!! Regards, Norm Julien BLACHE wrote: > Klaus Darilion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > >> I've never touched other unix system than Linux before. What could be >> a reason to use a FreeBsd instead of the Linux kernel? >> > > OpenSource is all about choice and diversity, isn't it ? :) > > I have no strong opinion for or against non-Linux kernels, but Linux > is my kernel of choice, just like you it seems. So I'm probably not > the best person to answer this question. (not to mention the last > thing I want is starting a Linux vs. BSD troll here) > > My primary interest in GNU/kFreeBSD years ago was curiosity, getting > my packages to build there to help bootstrap the port and raise the > number of Debian packages built for this new port. Now that I have > some more time again, I'm slowly going back to a number of projects > including this one ;) > > It's an interesting project, it raises a lot of interesting technical > challenges, and as far as portability is concerned it's a very good > thing. > > JB. > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openser.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
