

Installation that is easy for someone who’s never had to go without a mouse before is not something I see as important. > interest in make easier installation and they have noĮasy installation is something that I agree to be important. > There are things I hate in *BSDs: they have no This bodes quite well for virtual server environments.Īt any rate, go FreeBSD! My servers will continue running you until the day I leave my job or I’m fired, and hopefully much much after that when they can’t hire someone to take my place… One reason I’ve been told is that components such as the VMM and scheduler aren’t quite as CPU hungry as in other operating systems, and also that the memory footprint is quite low. I keep seeing more and more virtual server instance sellers who are selling FreeBSD. I see virtual server instaces on FreeBSD being sold all the time, on places like įreeBSD’s init system is wonderful for environments like this.

Now, the issue turns to virtual server spaces being sold which run a virtual instance of FreeBSD. I will, however, keep in mind that similar functionality could be achieved by Gentoo or Debian, to appease our Linux zealot friends. You can build custom packages then easily deploy them across a number of systems.

To misquote Churchill, never has an operating system used by so many been administered by so few.įreeBSD does something wonderful, they provide a stable while also easy to use way to customize aspects of the programs you are compiling before compiling them and let them be treated as packages within the system.
