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Daniel Kinzler:
> why FreeBSD and not Linux?
Why Linux and not FreeBSD, or Solaris, or OpenServer, or MP-RAS, or ...?
I've asked this many times in the past (usually when someone says "I
want Linux") and never had a real answer that I can remember.[0]
The way I see it, choice of operating system has very little impact on
users because users don't, generally, interact with the operating system.
There are a few specific cases which make a difference (I can think of
cron, 'ps' and top/prstat), but apart from that, the software users
actually use is the stuff in /opt/ts, which is independent of operating
system.[1]
For servers other than login servers (like databases) there are
additional considerations, since those make a lot more use of OS
features, like storage management. I've previously considered and
rejected FreeBSD for use as a database server (in favour of staying with
Solaris + VxVM).
To me, FreeBSD seems to be an ideal candidate for a platform to layer
/opt/ts on top of: it provides a base operating system which is
reliable, has a good feature set in areas which only the OS can provide
(e.g. DTrace, ZFS, auditing), and it's simple to install and maintain.
- river.
[0] I know some people are concerned about use of proprietary software
on the Toolserver, but that's a separate issue, and in any case FreeBSD
and Linux are equally open source.
[1] This assumes that all the software we provide works on FreeBSD, of
course. I haven't verified this, because we provide ~650 packages and
it would take many hours, so there's no point doing it unless we
actually decide to change OS. However, I don't foresee any problems.
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