Technological advantages over Linux

[Valeri Galtsev]

> On Feb 14, 2020, at 6:16 AM, Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Not to start a flame war. A purely technical question: what
> technological advantages does the modern FreeBSD have over modern Linux?
> 
> 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.
> 
> What other features do we have to (persuade the management to) prefer
> FreeBSD for new installations?
> 

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 “binary replica of RedHat Enterprise”) 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 == 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


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> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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Valeri Galtsev
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University of Chicago
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