freebsd users, who are you?
 

curious who else runs freebsd here (locally or on any of your servers)

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i am on server, do i get candy? :)

maybe ;)

yeah - but do i notice a difference? dont think so, my host takes care of that ;)

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I ran freebsd as a desktop for a few years... Managed dozens of servers running free and open obviously.

still have a box running FreeBSD 5.4 which I didn't update because it simply runs without problems. Been running fine for 7 years, same client on it. I just updated ports recently and I have Apache 2.0.64/PHP 5.4.4 running without problems. Proves how reliable FreeBSD is

ya, I got it on one machine

The tradeoff of idiot proofing for all that speed is worthwhile.

I run fbsd on my servers, and my netbook.

I run FreeBSD on my laptop, unfortunately I can not make it my main OS because I need to run Windows only software for my job, otherwise I would make FreeBSD my main operating system.

i havent used BSD in a while. kinda miss it.

all bsd here no centos servers no more :)

Kinda ...

I'm on a MacBook Pro (OSX is BSD-based)

Until about 2007, most of our servers were running FreeBSD, but since we mostly run CentOS, and a few Ubuntu Server.

still got more than a few freebsd boxes here and there :)

Candy for you.



Yeah, its almost ten minutes long. So what?

I am really tempted to switch to freebsd as my desktop OS

My nas is based on freebsd

I used to but I'm running Debian now. Much less hassle and just as fast and stable.

I've got a couple OpenBSD servers

just finishing up a shell script for freebsd and wordpress

I tried using freebsd as a desktop OS once, but then after noticing how most of the software I installed was done via ports from linux, I no longer see the point and went back to linux ><

For a server though, I hear they're quite good... but I'll stick with debian anyway.

I run FreeBSD on both my local and remote servers. :)

we do freebsd a lot

We use BSD in out custom purpose built routers. If you are interested in using it on the desktop, I highly recommend PC-BSD 9+.

I was using OpenBSD on my home server

For webservers, I really think CentOS is the way to go.

The Berkley standard distribution was built to handle ddosing

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Used to run FreeBSD on my production servers but recently changed to CentOS because software like ffmpeg and such is always behind on BSD and I needed latest versions for my CMS.

I still use BSD for some home servers. Love it.

You could compile ffmpeg by yourself instead of waiting for packages. Sources are always available at first and you will always had to wait until packagers create new pkgs.

Yeah you could, but BSD works best when you use the built-in ports system. And unfortunately the ports are not always up to date with versions available on linux. Also if I recall I had a situation where i needed a package that wasn't available on my version of BSD i was running.

I didn't want to make the switch but had to do what was best for production.

If you set compilation flags and other stuff properly, you can get better results than from packages. Good old Gentoo works this way - setting custom compilation settings to get the most of your hardware.

Unfortunately, true. Linux is a lot more popular and more widely used, so it takes priority.

End result is the most important thing. If your server works better after the switch, you did a good move :thumbsup

I used to run FreeBSD on my servers and laptop, but now i use CentOS on the servers and Arch Linux on the Laptop.

I love Arch Linux :thumbsup the only distros I use regularly are Debian and Arch

I was trying it on a desktop (PC-BSD). The only serious problem is a lack of drivers and software for it. It's very easy to find almost everything for Linux, but not for BSD.

As about the Windows applications, so most of them run pretty well in wine on both BSD and Linux systems.