Which Operating System is better?
By Scorpion_boo
@Scorpion_boo (125)
India
10 responses
@Keruma (36)
• Sri Lanka
20 Nov 06
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is extremely robust. There are numerous testimonials of active servers with uptimes measured in years. The new Soft Updates file system optimizes disk I/O for high performance, yet still ensures reliability for transaction based applications, such as databases.
FreeBSD is the system of choice for high performance net-
work applications. FreeBSD will outperform other systems
when running on equivalent hardware. The largest and busiest public server on the Internet, at ftp.freesoftware.com, uses FreeBSD to serve more than 1.2 terabyte/day of downloads. FreeBSD is used by Yahoo!, Qwest, and many others as their main server OS because of its ability to handle heavy network traffic with high performance and rock stable reliability.
FreeBSD has been the subject of a massive auditing project
for several years. All of the critical system components have
been checked and rechecked for security-related errors. The entire system is open source so the security of the system can and has been verified by third parties. A default FreeBSD installation has yet to be affected by a single CERT security advisory in 2000. FreeBSD also has the notion of kernel security levels, virtual server jails, capabilities, ACLs, and a very robust packet filtering firewall system.
FreeBSD includes a very robust packet filtering firewall system and many intrusion detection tools.