From: Jeff Barczewski <jeff.barczewski@...>
Date: 2007-02-14T01:02:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Linux OS

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On 2/13/07, Luke Ivers <lukeivers@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One final followup question:
>
> Someone suggested to me that I look into FreeBSD as an alternative to
> the Linux based systems.
>
> Anyone have any experience with FreeBSD that could mention pros/cons?
>
>

The security conscious out there always recommend BSD since I believe
OpenBSD hasn't had a successful security flaw found in a long while. I
believe this is due to a few things, first the packages aren't added as
quickly and secondly BSD has some nice buffer overflow thwarting mechanisms
in the OS that help to prevent the most common problems.

I don't know whether FreeBSD shares the same claim, but FreeBSD does offer
more compatibility with Linux binaries.

You can read more about them here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openbsd

You shouldn't have any problems running most anything you'll need on BSD and
Ruby is supported. If you choose FreeBSD then you can pull from Linux
binaries as well.

Several of the people I know use BSD and love it especially for servers.

Jeff

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