We've got the Linux users thread, now I'm curious how many BSD users are out there!
Doesn't matter if it's an appliance like FreeNAS or pfSense, or you're running NetBSD on your Dreamcast, chime in here to let us know you're a fan of *BSD and why you love it!
Personally I have my home server running FreeBSD 10-stable. It's acting as a NAS as well as a bhyve VM host. I also use it for development and testing, and for general tinkering around with to learn new things. One of my laptops also runs FreeBSD 10-stable, though I anticipate I'll be moving up to the 11-current branch pretty soon to try out some of the KMS and newcons developments that have been committed recently.
FreeNAS, FreeBSD and PC-BSD running here. I used to like BSD more than linux when it had larger software support than linux. I like BSD, but it's a minority operating system (not counting OSX that is), which makes it kinda difficult to use effectively in business in my opinion.
If BSD would have been GPL, it would have become bigger than Linux, just because it had more to offer in the past and was a better technology platform. That has changed though, now it's the other way around.
FreeNAS, NAS4Free and PfSense. BSD has been one of those things that I've been meaning to get around to trying rather than just using as a pre configured thing such as the previously mentioned FreeNas etc
I use FreeNAS on my home server, and have become compitent enough with FreeBSD to get apache running and install my favourite text editors etc. I plan on switching to Proxmox today after I saw Wendells video on it. I may get FreeBSD running in a container, but It'd just be for fun. I will probably stick to debian for all my production stuff.
Same here, I really need to learn to speak the FreeBSD language, if anything deep down in pfsense ever broke I'd be laying on the ground crying lol. Maybe Wendell could do a video on freeBSD? I tried to Virtualize it in proxmox but it throws a kernel error when I try to boot it...idk why
Cant go wrong with Debian. I've tried Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and briefly screwed around with CentOS. Nothing even comes close to Debian in my opinion, not even Ubuntu does unless you're using a ridiculously large cloud infrastructure and want the fancy canonical toys like Juju and easy OpenStack support.
I used to run a fleet of servers on BSD. The Jail system was second to none. Granted this was before OpenVZ was worth anything. Currently I have multiple PFSense boxses running. FreeNAS is on the horizon.
So now with OpenVZ more popular, do you still prefer FreeBSD jails, or do you like OpenVZ better? I have played with OpenVZ quite a bit (yay Proxmox) but I've never messed with anything BSD except for pfsense, and I've never touched any of the underlying system in that, just the GUI. Is FreeBSD still worth knowing how to use compared to Linux?
Lets see a PFsense router here based on an Intel C1037 with 6 LAN ports (sweet)
My fileserver is running ZFSguru which is just FreeBSD 10 with a web frontend basically and no not running it a VM as on Windows i'm a hardcore Total Commander user and I find little benefits from running it in a VM.
Still not sure what I'll do with my web/download/Minecraft/HTPC machine but I think I'll go to a linux route with that one soon. Dunno how safe my Xampp install currently is although I did close it down pretty much.