FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. A large community has continually developed it for more than thirty years. Its advanced networking, security, and storage features have made FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.
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FreeBSD was the only operating system out of many I tried to install easily on older hardware and to run in a very performant way. For example, I had a lot of trouble trying to get Ubuntu to install on older hardware and when it did, it was too slow to use. FreeBSD installed …
FreeBSD is an excellent choice to continue using older hardware and have it perform, it is a great choice for a UNIX based development environment. Although I haven't used it as a server, it is most suited for this - it would make an excellent, secure and robust server for and I would love to start using it for this as well.
Large scalable environments. Currently working toward SAP setup. Things have been stable so far. Uptime is great, aside from normal patching reboots. The only thing I can think of where Rhel wouldn't be too great is a workstation. Works well for most things, but I've found a few tools that there isn't a Linux port for.
It has a really easy way to fix security issues, just "yum update" and you're ready
[ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) is widely supported by vendors, so there's no need to compile drivers, modules, or applications from source to have a ready-to-use solution
The way [ Red Hat Enterprise Linux] (RHEL) is supported help us to have a long server lifecycle (10 years), which simplify a lot our compliance-
While the command line installation runs well, the desktop GUI tends to be resource intensive at times
The GUI based install menu does not scale well at times resulting in some menu options spilling offscreen
By default a menu based network manager should be included, from my experience particularly with the minimal install, this was not the case resulting in me editing the configuration file directly. Additionally, network tools should also be installed by default.
RHEL has most of the features that are required by an ERP solution. If you need any additional packages, RHEL has a great repository and a very easy package installation/upgrade process.
Red Hat support has really come a long way in the last 10 years, The general support is great, and the specialized product support teams are extremely knowledgeable about their specific products. Response time is good and you never need to escalate.
FreeBSD was the only operating system out of many I tried to install easily on older hardware and to run in a very performant way. For example, I had a lot of trouble trying to get Ubuntu to install on older hardware and when it did, it was too slow to use. FreeBSD installed quite easily and even after installing a desktop such as XFCE - it still run surprisingly fast. I was very impressed with it's performance, which it seems is a goal of the FreeBSD project.
We have been using AAP wherever possible to streamline RHEL deployments, which includes the on-prem bare metal and VM systems, as well as cloud based applications that require traditional compute interfaces. AAP is used for the on-perm infrastructure deployment and configuration. In the cloud it is used for post-deployment configuration. We also automate OpenShift clusters deployment (and rebuild) process, up until the ArgoCD pipelines take over. Also, RHEL is used for “supplementary systems” required for the OpenShift clusters to deployed and function, such DHCP and DNS services.
Overall, RHEL has helped us achieve heights in performance management and handling a large crowd at once with its huge management capacities. It is highly reliable and if used with apt load balancers you will not require more than one backup server because the crash frequency is minimal.
No negative impacted has been faced as of now since using RHEL.
