Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 08:03:06 -0600 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technological advantages over Linux Message-ID: <BAF0D681-7C95-419E-A49C-993F0EA39748@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20200214121620.GA80657@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20200214121620.GA80657@admin.sibptus.ru>
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> On Feb 14, 2020, at 6:16 AM, Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote: >=20 > Dear Colleagues, >=20 > Not to start a flame war. A purely technical question: what > technological advantages does the modern FreeBSD have over modern = Linux? >=20 > Several yeas ago I would say ZFS was a killer feature, but now Linux = has > ZFS too, and AFAIK FreeBSD is going to migrate to Linux's ZFS > implementation. >=20 > What other features do we have to (persuade the management to) prefer > FreeBSD for new installations? >=20 I can not comment on technological advantages, I am just humble = sysadmin, but I can list a few reasons why I fled my servers from Linux = (CentOS aka =E2=80=9Cbinary replica of RedHat Enterprise=E2=80=9D) to = FreeBSD: 1. Updates requiring reboot are rare (twice a year at the most), whereas = Linux on average every 45 day has either kernel or glibc security update = =3D=3D reboot 2. Somebody mentioned: no systemd/firewalld madness. Add to that binary = logs, and config files wrapped in XML garbage instead of plain ASCII. 3. jails, that are slim and efficient and allow me compartmentalize = stuff better, like splitting server and make parts of that host run in = different jails. (and the list continues for me) Valeri > --=20 > Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN > 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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