From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Feb 14 14:11:58 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4E4235DE7 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:11:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from kicp.uchicago.edu (kicp.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48JwL53QLMz4dpk for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:11:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from [192.168.43.231] (unknown [172.58.139.140]) (Authenticated sender: galtsev) by kicp.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A3AE04E6D8; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 08:03:08 -0600 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.0 \(3608.60.0.2.5\)) Subject: Re: Technological advantages over Linux From: Valeri Galtsev In-Reply-To: <20200214121620.GA80657@admin.sibptus.ru> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 08:03:06 -0600 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20200214121620.GA80657@admin.sibptus.ru> To: Victor Sudakov X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.60.0.2.5) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48JwL53QLMz4dpk X-Spamd-Bar: +++++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=fail reason="No valid SPF, No valid DKIM" header.from=uchicago.edu (policy=none); spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu has no SPF policy when checking 128.135.20.70) smtp.mailfrom=galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu X-Spamd-Result: default: False [7.74 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; DMARC_POLICY_SOFTFAIL(0.10)[uchicago.edu : No valid SPF, No valid DKIM,none]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[140.139.58.172.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.10]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_XBL(5.00)[140.139.58.172.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.4]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; IP_SCORE(0.14)[ip: (0.40), ipnet: 128.135.0.0/16(0.20), asn: 160(0.16), country: US(-0.05)]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(1.00)[0.996,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[70.20.135.128.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[1.000,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:160, ipnet:128.135.0.0/16, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; GREYLIST(0.00)[pass,body]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-Spam: Yes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:11:58 -0000 > On Feb 14, 2020, at 6:16 AM, Victor Sudakov 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++