Why use FreeBSD?
FreeBSD is used by leading companies and organizations on the Internet:
- www.yahoo.com, Yahoo! Inc.
- www.netcraft.com, Netcraft.
- www.pair.com, Pair.
- www.ipowerweb.com, iPowerWeb.
- www.wni.com, Weathernews.
- www.nyi.net, New York Internet.
- www.datapipe.net, DataPipe.
FreeBSD excels in:
- Network performance. For a long time, this has been the bread and butter keeping FreeBSD alive in a commercial setting. Walnut Creek (RIP) used FreeBSD to push over two terabytes a day to up to 6000 FTP connections, on cheap PC hardware. More info in this announcement from TeraSolutions, Inc. Since then, FreeBSD has only gotten faster!
- Practical security. Clues are jail, TrustedBSD, active and reasonable security focus, timely updates in one CVS repository.
- Usability and maintainability. With over 10000 ready-to-run applications in Ports, the road to success is not long.
BSD Consulting does believe FreeBSD is good for you too!
Some BSD history/facts here.