Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

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Post by truth_seeker » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 3:59 PM UTC

Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
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Re: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

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Post by jagged-chisel » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 4:17 PM UTC

How well does FreeBSD support a “modern” web backend? Does Java run here? Mono (C#)? Node.js? PostgreSQL? Any noSQL databases?

Re: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

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Post by ArrayBoundCheck » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 4:19 PM UTC

AFAIK I and most people can't run it due to freebsd not supporting our hardware. Does it support intel wifi and GPUs? (I'm using an amd GPU). Can I run netflix or prime and get 1080 resolution? (note on linux I need to use a addon to achieve this)

Re: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

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Post by itvision » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 4:22 PM UTC

> Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux

On the server/router maybe. For IT pros maybe.

The desktop is a whole different matter.

Re: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

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Post by sophacles » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 4:23 PM UTC

jagged-chisel wrote: post #2

How well does FreeBSD support a “modern” web backend? Does Java run here? Mono (C#)? Node.js? PostgreSQL? Any noSQL databases?

For the most part: yes. The one I'm not sure of is Mono.

That being said, some tooling assumes linux sometimes, but the popular stuff is generally gtg, especially if you get it via the ports tree.

Re: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

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Post by carlavilla » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 4:23 PM UTC

jagged-chisel wrote: post #2

How well does FreeBSD support a “modern” web backend? Does Java run here? Mono (C#)? Node.js? PostgreSQL? Any noSQL databases?

You can run Spring with Java 17 in FreeBSD without problems. Same with Node.js, Postgres and MongoDB for example. About Mono, I don’t have experience with this environment. But I’m using the other technologies at my work without problems.

Re: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

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Post by alberth » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 4:26 PM UTC

I'm a huge fan of FreeBSD, though I have to admit - when I was looking at the Vulnerability Statistics chart I wondered to myself "are there fewer identified FreeBSD vulnerabilities because there are way fewer FreeBSD users (than Linux)".

Re: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

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Post by whalesalad » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 4:28 PM UTC

jagged-chisel wrote: post #2

How well does FreeBSD support a “modern” web backend? Does Java run here? Mono (C#)? Node.js? PostgreSQL? Any noSQL databases?

In the server sense, FreeBSD will do essentially everything that Linux does as far as running software. For your examples, yes.

Re: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

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Post by pid_0 » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 4:31 PM UTC

jagged-chisel wrote: post #2

How well does FreeBSD support a “modern” web backend? Does Java run here? Mono (C#)? Node.js? PostgreSQL? Any noSQL databases?

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Re: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

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Post by sgt » Sat, Aug 06, 2022, 4:32 PM UTC

itvision wrote: post #4

> Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux On the server/router maybe. For IT pros maybe. The desktop is a whole different matter.

On the desktop, Linux is going to be challenging anyway. Many people love that challenge and make it work, and that's cool. But my point is that if you can make it work on desktop Linux you will make it work on FreeBSD as well, given some decent skill.