FreeBSD or DEBIAN for remotely administered internet server
Please no discussion about different licensing and other fundamentals, this
has been discussed over and over again.
Just some comments (ideally backed by practical experience), which one is
easier to keep up-to-date remotely via ssh, mainly in request to security.
So no fancy X-Windows stuff, no cutting edge beta apps, just stable
standards like apache, bind, MySQL, Qmail, Courier, Proftpd etc. (so the
advantage of FreeBSD's ports to be some times more current than DEBIAN's
packages shouldn't count very much, as long as both come up with important
security updates just in time). Some, like apache/PHP are likely to need
installation from source, due to the great number of options, most could
just be installed as binaries.
In case someone hosting a headless remote server and used both, DEBIAN and
FreeBSD, I'd like to hear the reasons why you prefer the one (expect to be
DEBIAN on this list ;-) over the other.
Thanks for your comments
Peter
PS: Posted this as well to <comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc> to collect arguments
from FreeBSD evangelists. just in case you are interested
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