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What is FreeBSD?

FreeBSD is an open-source operating system that is designed to provide a secure, reliable, and efficient platform for various applications. According to the FreeBSD Project, it is suitable for businesses of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. FreeBSD is used by a wide range of professions and industries, including web hosting providers, software development companies, internet service providers, networking and telecommunications companies, research institutions and universities, IT professionals and system administrators, software developers and programmers, web hosting companies, and network infrastructure providers.

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Secure and Stable OS

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Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am in a different department now but we have used FreeBSD extensively in my past organizations to run services such as web, email, dns, etc. services.

Such a secure and stable operating system.

Pros

  • stability
  • security
  • scalability

Cons

  • gui

Return on Investment

  • opensource
  • scalability and reliability
  • security

Alternatives Considered

CentOS Linux and Fedora Linux

Other Software Used

CentOS Linux, Microsoft Windows

FreeBSD is an excellent and performant operating system that allowed me to run a development environment on older hardware

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Verified User
Professional in Corporate (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Performs really well, even on older hardware
  • Secure
  • Robust
  • Package manager (pkg) is excellent
  • Large collection of ported software from Linux
  • Documentation is excellent (FreeBSD Handbook)

Cons

  • Installation can be tricky for first timers
  • You need to be comfortable using a command line terminal most of the time

Most Important Features

  • Active development and strong community
  • Documentation
  • Security
  • Robustness
  • Performance
  • XFCE
  • Support for NodeJS and MongoDB
  • Package management

Return on Investment

  • As FreeBSD is free - the ROI is at least the cost of some commercial Linux or Windows based OS (which can be very expensive)
  • Allowed the re-use of older hardware that would have otherwise been disposed
  • No cost development environment
  • Opportunity for a no cost server setup also

Alternatives Considered

Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS Linux, Oracle Linux and Windows Server

Other Software Used

Ubuntu Linux, CentOS Linux, Windows Server