Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:01:40 +0100 From: Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technological advantages over Linux Message-ID: <20200214150126.GA1219@x1> In-Reply-To: <20200214141600.GA82559@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20200214121620.GA80657@admin.sibptus.ru> <CAEJNuHwRs=6kOK9uiFzEAqCgSgvUb8Xm5o2VWnK-ND_zseowdg@mail.gmail.com> <20200214141600.GA82559@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 09:16:00PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 12:16, Victor Sudakov <vas@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? > > > > Sorry, but I find this sort of a chalk vs cheese kind of comparison. > > Of course not. When deciding what to use in the next project, you have > to advocate your choice in front of your superiors and colleagues, and > your presentation should be well backed up with technical arguments. > > When I advocate FreeBSD over Windows, for example, there are some very > clear and easily defendable technical and economical advantages (open > source, absence of viruses, BSD license - just to name a few). It is not > so easy with FreeBSD vs Linux. > > For example, the absence of Docker (or analogous technology) for FreeBSD > is a huge disadvantage. We need to name really superiour features to > make up for this shortage. ZFS, bectl, pf, MAC, ports and poudriere, jails, VNET, GEOM, development model (current -> stable -> release), BSD license, reviewing process (https://reviews.freebsd.org/), simplicity and clarity, documentation, linux binary compatibility, rctl, Dtrace support, ... Of course nothing is perfect (12.0-RELEASE was a very problematic release for us due to the various iflib issues and PR 236220), but from experience FreeBSD is a lot easier to manage and maintain than any of the Linux-es I used, especially if you deploy everything with (VNET) jails, ZFS, and a custom poudriere repository (branch based) (For Docker I honnestly never understood all the fuss, you can achieve the same thing with jails and something like Saltstack, so it's not at all an "huge" disadvantage to me) > > > > You start making comparisons, then you have to list all possible Linux > > distros, etc, you know the drill. > > In fact, there is quite a limited number of Linux distros to be > considered for use in production, maybe 3-4, and they are not that > different in their capabilities. Other distros are too exotic or geeky. > > -- > Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN > 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform (http://www.biodiversity.be) PGP fingerprint: EEF9 F697 4B68 D275 7B11 6A25 B2BB 3710 A204 23C0 No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.home | help
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