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Originally posted by iroc409
FreeBSD can run anything linux can.
i prefer the stock security of a FreeBSD box, and admiteddly it's the "feel" of the operating system.
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Not EVERYTHING .. Admittedly, some of the features I like about linux don't lend towards stability or traditional systems design.. But a lot of my customers are failed dot-coms, and small adult sites that need to do more with less.. Being able to setup Tux as a static content webserver is nice..
Like one of my newer clients had 10 servers and wanted to trim costs.. I rebuilt things in a way that he only needed 5 of the servers, and things were a LOT more redundant than before, with every server running all of his sites, a load balancer in front of them, a nfs server behind so everything could be easily kept up to sync..
The main thing Linux was nice for in that situation was it's ability to handle static load.. He pushes out about 5 million static page views a day with that configuration, thanks to the Tux webserver.. which admittedly is kind of a flawed idea, running a webserver in the kernel.. but it's been pretty stable so far (I've got a co uple customers who I setup tux on over a year ago, with 100% site uptime since)) .. Tux is REALLY fast..
Solaris has a tux clone.. I can't think of what it is right now, but it was buggy last time I tried it..
In the end, it really is a feel thing.. Linux ends up being nice because documentation and configurations more and more are geared towards it.. Try setting up courier imap + vmailmgr + squirrelmail + php on freebsd someday, you'll lose a fistful of hair!