On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:46:02AM -0400, Ryan Whelan wrote: >I'm surprised no one has said they thought it was 'better' for the role they >need- I figured for sure there would be answers about the BSD vs GPL >licensing or it does <whatever you need your machines for> better... > >Has anyone migrated from a Linux to a BSD and wished the BSD could do >something you feel Linux does better or what was your biggest pain in >migrating / what do you miss the most?
I really miss the loadavg-based LED heartbeat. :) I used to use linux on soekris boxes, ranging from a custom build on an 8M flash card, to a full-blown debian installation. The latter was for a server role, which at this point has migrated to something with more headroom. So now I've got soekris boxes in their original communications role (router/firewall) using OpenBSD. For that particular role the limitations of OpenBSD aren't an issue, and I like having a different OS at the edge of the network than at the core. I do still find the upgrade process to be painful, but it's tolerable. If I move on the 6501 for more general server duties, I'd be back to linux. Although I'm not sure how the new platform stacks up to an atom 330; I really wish intel would rationalize the atom line. I'd like something around 10W, virtualization, 64 bits, and more than one core. You can get all of those in the atom line, but not all at once. I suppose it would completely eat their high-margin chips, but it would be a very nice platform. Mike Stone _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
