CS & IT Solutions

Both FreeBSD & Linux are reliable and Servers running either software often stay up for years. But disk I/O of linux is non-synchronous by default which corrupts filesystem after system crash.

Freebsd’s disk I/O is high performance for transactions based applications for example databases. It is observerd that under heavy network load, the network performance of linux is 20-30% below of Freebsd under same hardware.

Being open source Linux allows anyone to change security code due to which code is modified rapidly and there is no formal code review policy. On other hand FreeBSD security components are checked for errors. Freebsd includes very robust packet filtering firewall system. Linux ext2/ext3 has several new journaling filesystems which fix data loss due to system crash. While FreeBSD uses UFS(Unix File System) which is more complex than ext2/ext3. UFS has many flags to use for performance and security for example schg flag does not allow to change file & directory unless you remove it.

Device Driver support of Freebsd is better than Linux. FreeBSD boot loader allows to load drivers at boot-time. Some time it becomes very difficult for linux users to use vendor’s drivers. Freebsd can run programs compiled for linux, SCO Unix and BSD systems. But Linux can only run binaries that are compiled for linux. Freebsd has many GBs of free packages to install via ports (Package management system of Freebsd). Linux has also free available software but Linux has not a central location like ports collection. of Freebsd.

Several organizations give professional support for both Freebsd & Linux. All the major Linux vendors offer some level of support, and several offer full 24/7 service. There are many forums where Linux questions are answered for free.

Both FreeBSD & Linux can be installed on as many systems as you like for no additional cost. Both Linux & Freebsd’s total cost of ownership is very low.

So if you are planning to deploy a transactional applications then for the best performance Deploy FreeBSD for example Email services & Database applications.

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