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by markstos 1703 days ago
I used FreeBSD in production for years as a hosting platform, starting in the late nineties. Then it had an earned reputation as being more secure, stable and higher performance than Linux. Yahoo and other large services were using it for their servers as well. Since then Linux has improved, but a diverse ecosystem of options is healthy. A monoculture of OSes would be vulnerable to global security problems just a diet based on only one crop.

It's great that other projects make other choices about default shells and other system design details.