From: geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid   
      
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   >     To that end, FreeBSD (and most of the BSDs) make for amazing   
   >     server operating systems. If you were to ask any long-in-the-tooth   
   >     geeks about server operating systems, they'd likely say that BSD   
   >     is what you want.   
   >   
   > That may have been true 20 or more years ago, but it isn’t any more.   
   > All the essential server-oriented functionality (e.g. modern   
   > networking stack, service management, security modules and privilege   
   > isolation) is primarily being developed for Linux now, while the BSD   
   > folks try to figure out how to port some small part of it to their   
   > aging platform.   
      
   A major exception to that is ZFS: native and very dependable in   
   FreeBSD (and works great as the root filesystem), but a horribly   
   fragile dkms mess in Linux.   
      
   When it was time to replace my ageing Open Solaris file/media server,   
   I chose FreeBSD over Linux for that reason. (But all my other systems   
   run Linux.)   
      
   --   
   Geoff Clare    
      
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