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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
