FreeBSD or Linux on the server?
Published 6 years ago in design + devOk, I’ll admit I don’t know much about much of what Jeremy wrote about in this article, but I do appreciate his opinion…
Ok, that’s not totally accurate, I know about most of what he wrote about, but I don’t know any of the details, or how to actually do anything with them… in essence, I know ‘just enough to be dangerous,’ but thought I should point out his FreeBSD vs. Linux article, if for no other reason than Yahoo is a FreeBSD shop, and he’s essentially recommending Linux to those that are 1) having problems with FreeBSD and MySQL and/or those starting from scratch.
At least Kasia digs Jeremy’s article too, so I’m in good company.
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In the real world, if you have a problem with a tire - you change the tire and not the car.
If you have a problem with mySQL on FreeBSD, you change to PostgreSQL, you don’t change the O/S.
Eventually, people grow up and realize that.
your spare tire car analogy is silly.
alot of the time there is a good deal of code and queries that are optimized for mysql. switching an o/s merely requires backing up your databases and reinstalling whereas switching db servers requires quite a bit more intervention/time. of course an abstraction layer reduces this, but in my experience it’s much easier to switch the os