FreeBSD 11.0 Released

Tom tom at vondein.org
Tue Oct 11 10:08:03 PDT 2016


On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 01:07:51PM -0300, Ben Mezger wrote:
> Is anyone here using FreeBSD?

I use it at home and we use it at work (hundreds of FreeBSD boxes).
It is stable, maintainable, good to update, has pretty good hardware
support and superior performance.

> Why would anyone choose FreebSD over
> OpenBSD? Number of packages available?

FreeBSD has a way larger developer community and is in wide use,
especially by companies. 

You didn't ask, but: if you ever use FreeBSD for a longer time, you'll
never go back to Linux. At least not voluntarily :)


- Tom


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