More eyes and hands means better faster security patches and similar issues. That's why I don't use "three guys and a github" specialized linux distros. If you follow a similar outlook (and what works for me might not work for you) then a crude google search result indicates the community for freebsd is about 30 times more talkative (30 times bigger?) and some more wikipedia searches reveal freebsd is five times the age WRT stability.
I have never heard of Illumos which also implies I've never heard anything bad about it. Although I do personally know people who swear by freebsd, so ...
I would probably use a *bsd to avoid all possibility of systemd issues, and
implies the big "thing" for freebsd is "usable for any purpose" which is the old Debian "universal OS" concept I like so much.
I would strongly consider openbsd for something bare out on the internet not behind a stateful firewall and my limited experience with netbsd is its pretty awesome but being able to boot on a PDP11 necessitates some excessive old code. I'm astounded by retroBSD on PIC32 arch.
Thank you for the explanation--I'm looking at different high-reliability OS's for long-time embedded deployments, and xBSD flavors are looking pretty promising.
I have never heard of Illumos which also implies I've never heard anything bad about it. Although I do personally know people who swear by freebsd, so ...
I would probably use a *bsd to avoid all possibility of systemd issues, and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_sys...
implies the big "thing" for freebsd is "usable for any purpose" which is the old Debian "universal OS" concept I like so much.
I would strongly consider openbsd for something bare out on the internet not behind a stateful firewall and my limited experience with netbsd is its pretty awesome but being able to boot on a PDP11 necessitates some excessive old code. I'm astounded by retroBSD on PIC32 arch.