I’ve been using it for a few years now.
Erlang & Elixir deployment is just as boring as it is on Linux.
– The end.
findlaech
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AstonJ
Cloven
One downside of Linux is that most distributions ship terrible, hacked together amateur code and ill-thought out monstrosities like systemd, pulseaudio and so forth. This is getting markedly worse over time and infecting more and more distributions.
By comparison, FreeBSD is clean and OpenBSD is immaculate. Neither one has the sexy latest features, but for servers, that’s a strong plus. And, programs are frequently faster and have less jitter on the BSDs, owing to better networking stacks, better drivers, and better schedulers.
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findlaech
Sure, but honestly, when it’s just a matter of git clone/wget/rsync & using mix,
There’s no real difference with Linux systems 
Of course, administrating a FreeBSD is way more pleasant with a far more documented manual.
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evv555
FreeBSD has a network stack that is more reliable under heavy loads and has better tooling for tuning. If you have a machine with dozens of cores and you’re trying to saturate the network cards with millions of socket connections(like WhatsApp) then FreeBSD is a natural fit.
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pfitz
Correct me if I am wrong, but afaik WhatsApp uses Erlang on FreeBSD for its messaging servers. Seems to me very stable.
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nimrev
I’d like to add that I think FreeBSD is a more superior operating system, mostly because of stability and documentation. I’ve had a few production CentOS and Debian Linux systems break on me for no apparent reasons in the last 5 years. I’ve started using FreeBSD 4 years ago and have never had any major issues, servers all running stable.
However, if you’re used to Linux and good at managing Linux servers, just use that.
As long as you install Elixir it’s a win for our community anyway 
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AstonJ
For those of you interested in promoting FreeBSD, you are welcome to start a Wiki with info (and reasons etc) about using it with Elixir here on the forum if you like 
If you’re up for it, go ahead and start the thread and I’ll make a wiki for you and add it to our list of stickies
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Deithrian
For myself, I think I’m going to keep it in this thread for now and in the “experimentation” realm, since a Wiki sounds more like a dependable information and I can’t provide that as a beginner.
It would be great if someone with professional experience is willing to share their know-how in a Wiki though
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arpunk
EDIT: Misread
Also, better kernel polling, DTrace, better schedulers, integrated OS, ZFS, Jails. Those are options you don’t find in the GNU/Linux world. The network stack is faster and more reliable (as others have pointed out).
I run FreeBSD on my laptop, on my workstation and on my deploy servers. We run FreeBSD at work in production and we deploy Elixir and Erlang applications with a breeze. We are now moving forward to containers using http://www.tredly.com/
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