We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD

Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by pm90 on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:05AM (#30058472)

> Likewise, some people and many businesses see the immediate now and aren't always the best at planning for long term, and/or are overly optimistic that their pain points will eventually be fixed.

But that's the thing. The pain points mentioned in this article aren't really that strong to need to ditch the OS and move to a new one. These kinds of decisions have huge tradeoffs.

One could argue, in fact, that moving to a non-traditional OS will make it much harder to hire experts or hand off the system to another team in the future.

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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by washadjeffmad on Monday January 24, 2022 @11:12AM (#30059487)

I think of it this way: If you interpret "rolling stones gather no moss" to mean you've always got to keep pushing forward or you'll become obsolete, choose Linux. If you venerate moss as proof of the stability granted by doing the same thing simply and perfectly, you're probably already using FreeBSD.

After CentOS Stable was cancelled, I migrated a number of our platforms to FreeBSD because it met our needs and I enjoyed working on it. No surprises, nothing breaking, and most importantly, no drama.

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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by djbusby on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:59AM (#30059243)

What? FreeBSD as a non-traditonal OS? I must disagree, FreeBSD may not be as common as Windows or Linux but it's not like Plan9 (from outer space) or BeOS.

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