I made the choice of FreeBSD in 1996 for my fledgling hosting business. I considered Linux and FreeBSD. At the time, FreeBSD was considered to have a much better VM system under load, and similar sorts of stability characteristics. I chose FreeBSD then and am glad I did so. I do not know what the Linux VM system is like now, 8.5 years later. However, I read some recent remarks by people I would consider competent who say that the FreeBSD VM system is still superior.
One of the biggest differences between Linux and the BSD derived systems is the license. If you agree with RMS (Richard Stallman of the FSF) you should probably go with Linux. If you prefer a more free market oriented license that is truly free, then a BSD system is probably more in line with your needs.
There are LOTS of technical differences of course, but from a user or admin level, they are both similar, as they are both unix-derived environments.
I do have a single gentoo system for some special java processing. At the time it was installed, the FreeBSD java was not at the same level as the Linux one was. Now the differences in the java systems are minor and if I could, I would migrate this machine over to FreeBSD. However, it is in production and such a move would take too much time.
best Chad
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