I remember explaining why I used FreeBSD instead of Linux back in the day, and just after I said "it's a bit more stable than Linux" the system completely froze. Ouch, embarrassing. Needless to say, no one was especially convinced. That was on 5.0 or 5.1 IIRC.
(These days, there isn't too much of a difference any more; Linux has come a long way in the last 20 years.)
My whole journey to freebsd started because I had a very old PC that I used as PPTP server while running not-so-legal ISP in the neighborhood. FreeBSD happened to be the greatest for this because of in-kernel support thanks to netgraph, but the real reason why - Linux couldn't finish the installation on that machine without crashing. FreeBSD meanwhile kept working until I made enough money to buy a better hardware.
Just for that reason, I will forever love it, but won't be using it on desktop - I can't use 10 years for GPU drivers on my main rig.
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I remember explaining why I used FreeBSD instead of Linux back in the day, and just after I said "it's a bit more stable than Linux" the system completely froze. Ouch, embarrassing. Needless to say, no one was especially convinced. That was on 5.0 or 5.1 IIRC.
(These days, there isn't too much of a difference any more; Linux has come a long way in the last 20 years.)
My whole journey to freebsd started because I had a very old PC that I used as PPTP server while running not-so-legal ISP in the neighborhood. FreeBSD happened to be the greatest for this because of in-kernel support thanks to netgraph, but the real reason why - Linux couldn't finish the installation on that machine without crashing. FreeBSD meanwhile kept working until I made enough money to buy a better hardware.
Just for that reason, I will forever love it, but won't be using it on desktop - I can't use 10 years for GPU drivers on my main rig.