I've not played with Gentoo in several years, so I can't speak to it. I can report however, that FreeNAS, built on FreeBSD, is rock solid and non-problematic. The hardware fails before the software even thinks about locking up.
Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Library 203 S. Main St. Franklin, KY 42134 (270) 586-8397 www.gmpl.org Library Technology Blog On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 09:28 -0500, Chris Faulkner wrote: > There are certain cases where BSD prevails over Linux, but in any > case, whatever does the job for is fine. However,i've found in my own > personal cases that BSD offers much more stability in a production > enviroment. My personal choices for OSes are as follows... > > 1. Gentoo > 2. FreeBSD > 3. CentOS > > in order. Depending on what needs my client has or what use the > server OS farm needs to be, I would flip 1 and 2 around. If you are > building out a firewall, FreeBSD would be the way to fly. > > No flames, this is just my personal adventures with these OSes.. > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Andrew Farnsworth<[email protected]> wrote: > > Please, I am NOT trying to start a flame war, this is an honest request for > > knowledge. > > > > I am curious to know why someone would choose to use BSD rather than Linux > > and vice versa. I have read several articles talking about BSD being > > carefully thought out as a whole and designed and tested to rigorous > > standards where Linux is not, but I am wondering if this is still as true as > > it once was. > > > > Pointing me in the direction of some current articles would be fine. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
