The main reason why we prefer FreeBSD over Linux is performance. The Linux kernel, on the other hand, was written by Linus Torvalds as a UNIX-clone or UNIX-like system at the beginning of the 1990s. Proprietary AT&T code has been removed, but FreeBSD can trace its roots back into the 1970s.
FreeBSD is based on UNIX-it was born out of BSD UNIX. Although both are similar on the surface, under the hood they are two very different operating systems.
We applaud those hardware-vendors that support open-source by releasing enough information about their hardware to allow community developers to write drivers for it, and still more those vendors that take the time to write drivers themselves.įreeBSD v. This is not due to any superior architecture or development of Windows, but due to the choice made by many third-party hardware vendors to only write drivers for Windows, and to jealously guard the secrets of those drivers by keeping them closed-source. However, FreeBSD employs a number of very good generic hardware drivers and supports a lot of useful and modern devices (with the exception of most winmodems). The other advantage boasted by Windows is hardware drivers-Windows can use a lot of hardware that FreeBSD simply cannot. Browse through the Applications for FreeBSD we've chosen to highlight in this Guide and see what we mean. However, we believe that the vast majority of the applications used by the average Windows user can be replaced with equivalents or replacements on FreeBSD. Windows used to be so unstable that until Windows 2000 was released, Microsoft reputedly used FreeBSD as the server for ! Obviously the one major advantage Windows has to offer over FreeBSD is applications-no OS can compare to Windows in terms of the sheer number of applications written for it. Windows, on the other hand, has been constantly plagued by security flaws, and is a frequent target for viruses, worms, and hacker attacks. FreeBSD is incredibly stable, and boasts good security to boot. Windows: In spite of the dominance of Microsoft Windows on the desktop, we really feel that there is no contest between FreeBSD and Windows. Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernelįreeBSD v. 3 Reasons to use FreeBSD 3 Reasons to use FreeBSD.
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