Linux vs FreeBSD for Phoenix?

[Mandemus]

@AstonJ

Thanks @Mandemus, so basically theres no real benefit and it becomes harder to maintain. I was expecting more. I guess perhaps it ‘might’ be a little more secure since it is not used as much?

BSD is rock solid and secure. Not through obscurity but It’s having a long pedigree. It is as I said an actual port of AT&T’s System V Unix. Linux is merely a unix inspired workalike.

AIX on IBM Power hardware is prevalent in science and business, OsX on the Macintosh is also BSD.

@AstonJ

Haha I hear you, but the upside is a rock solid system I use Chruby for ruby versions and don’t mind the occasional building from source.

I wanted to install two ubiquitous things last month. lftp and tmux. Both were like 5 minor versions behind. I run into that constantly with Centos. It makes the repo essentially a worthless exercise in frustration.

I get why they do it, stability. Still while I don’t need almost daily updates like with Fedora, but the way things are the Centos repo is always feeling ancient.