Why don't companies use FreeBSD as much in production as Linux?

Re:Why don't companies use FreeBSD as much in production as ... by swills on Sunday July 31, 2016 @10:05PM (#12199853)

It's a lot easier these days with the new pkg tools.

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Re:Why don't companies use FreeBSD as much in production as ... by sigil on Sunday July 31, 2016 @10:08PM (#12199861)

I've used the new pkg tools a little. Can you be more specific? Can they be used to reliably apply unattended security updates now?

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Re:Why don't companies use FreeBSD as much in production as ... by pentago on Monday August 01, 2016 @02:36PM (#12204778)

There days people use freebsd-update to do this. http://serverfault.com/a/738217/41952

Accompanies with ZFS boot environments there's literally minimal fuss about upgrading and worrying about possible breakages.

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Re:Why don't companies use FreeBSD as much in production as ... by sigil on Monday August 01, 2016 @06:09PM (#12206458)

Thanks, I hadn't seen `freebsd-update install --not-running-from-cron`. I'll give that a try.

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