Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
While I like more FreeBSD than Linux, I say Linux is generally a better choice for servers. Better performance, better hardware support, more refined tools, easier to set up, and the list goes on. This is part due to popularity but mainly because what author hates: software written by companies willing to earn money in contrast to software written solely by passion. If it weren&#x27;t for corporate money, Linux would be in a much poorer state.<p>Neither one is ready as a desktop operating system. Linus Torvalds said that himself about Linux. Since FreeBSD lags behind Linux, it&#x27;s safe to assume that is true for FreeBSD, too.<p>Fast reading the author&#x27;s previous articles on FreeBSD VS Linux, it&#x27;s easy to see that it&#x27;s dislike for Linux and praise for FreeBSD it&#x27;s based solely on politics. He hates Windows 10 which he names an &quot;horrible operating system&quot; and now he hates Linux too. And that is just because Linux has big contributions by companies willing to gain money, in contrast to software written solely for passion, which he deems much better.<p>He even goes as far as state that technical merits matter much less than politics.<p>That I regard as pretty immature.<p>Now the author struggles to come up with technical reasons to pick FreeBSD over Linux. If he succeeds on that, that is for any reader to judge.<p>Rants like the author&#x27;s previous articles on Linux VS FreeBSD seem to make even Richard Stallman an reasonable man in contrast.<p>Some developers, some companies are providing software for free, both as in &quot;free beer&quot; and as in &quot;free speech&quot;. That means time and money. He thinks that he and other users are entitled to much more than that. He feels like he should say to others in what way should they contribute to free software.