Why aren't you using FreeBSD?

[Kris Kirby]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Alex Moura wrote:
> Why aren't you using FreeBSD? 
> http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/why-arent-you-using-freebsd-178119?page=0,1 

Because being able to upgrade the system "hot" using a package manager 
makes my life easy. Having a userland tied to a kernel means if I update 
one ahead of the other, I can impact the user's operations. Ditto for 
graceful upgrades of libc. My customers don't want the service down for 
anything without a month's notice and three meetings. Why reboot the box 
unless there's a kernel vulnerability, not a library or userland vuln?

I love FreeBSD, but at the end of the day, being able to "yum install 
beer" or "apt-get install yuengling" gives me more time for beer and 
less time awake in the middle of the night. 

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Kris Kirby, KE4AHR
Disinformation Analyst