My take on FreeBSD was that it was a very promising non-mainstream OS but never caught on large scale. There was talk, if I am remembering right, about Sun suing anyone who made anything that looked like Unix for a while there. I think that scared a lot of people off. I'm glad it still lives.
Bob On Apr 19, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Kee, > > The three big BSDs (FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD) are all great. In 1999, I > worked with NetBSD servers, this year, I went on to build myself a FreeBSD > server and my knowledge from 1999 was instantly transferable. Things are > where they should be. It is very easy to configure and secure a FreeBSD > server. I think it will take me one or two hours to put a complete server up > and this includes building all software from source packages. > > I will try to talk to people at RunRev during the conference and see if I > can get them interested in an experimental build for FreeBSD. It can be > unsupported, all I want is an engine that runs. > > If you check on the netcraft reports for the top 3 most stable hosting > companies in the world, you will see that they are all running FreeBSD (they > might be running FreeBSD and providing Linux virtualized for their clients > with Xen or something like that but the host OS still FreeBSD) > > Cheers > andre > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Kee Nethery <k...@kagi.com> wrote: > >> I've not used FreeBSD but two data points. >> >> A guy in the building where I live runs an online business that gets lots >> of hack attacks and he long ago switched to FreeBSD for his servers because >> in his experience it is way more secure than any of the Linux distros. >> >> Secondly, a friend of mine who has held high level behind the scenes >> technical networking positions for a very large company (to say he knows his >> stuff is an understatement) has been involved with FreeBSD for years because >> he appreciates the security reviews and completeness of the code that gets >> submitted into FreeBSD. It's what he runs for his personal servers. >> >> I have no idea how big the market is for FreeBSD installations of LiveCode, >> but the OS has an excellent reputation as a server. >> >> Kee Nethery >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > > -- > http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
