further down on migs techscene... Lone Geek has some interesting points against the use of freebsd... my opinion however is that the guy has been a linux user and that probably is his comfort zone...

me, am no os zealot... but am tend to be biased against freebsd, maybe its my comfort zone ;)

to date, i still use freebsd for most things except on this degatto due to the wifi-card issue... i had come to admire the rock solid feel of the os as well as the easy to use ports collection... to date it runs all the java dev tools and apps *i* need to get the work done... production and qa servers are quite happy serving java apps and they are all based on freebsd...

i do think linux is a great os with pretty much support for the new hardware coming out today... but in general i hate that theres a a lot of incompatible distros and the way the whole file system is arranged... in freebsd you can pretty much expect things to be consistent (dirs and files)... consistency is great especially when it comes to overall management of a system...

FreeBSD, the power to serve!