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What is the Best Use case for FreeBSD vs someone's favorite Linux Flavor?
I know BSD has been around for a long time now. I’ve been seeing mentions of it here and there. I noticed that Digital Ocean now offers FreeBSD as an option. I was wondering if anyone knew of any situations where FreeBSD would be a good fit, or if this is nothing more than just personal preference for some?
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In my opinion, killer features of FreeBSD are:
Thanks for the reply. I’ve never heard any of those. I’ll have to check those out. Do you know of any more simple uses?
ZFS is a great feature for FreeBSD but IMO not really useful on DO (droplets have UFS by default). I think the top selling point of FreeBSD on DO is for jails. I’m getting ready to move my droplet over to FreeBSD and it’s mainly for jails.
If you’re not familiar with jails, it’s basically a really well secured chroot. It’s kind of what Docker is trying to do except it’s more secure, more mature and has been battle tested for the last decade or so. Plus you can archive your jails and move them to a local development server and have the exact same software stack as your droplet. If you’re really interested in FreeBSD check out the handbook and the www.bsdnow.tv podcast. The podcast has a great jails tutorial.