How FreeBSD Handles Security Updates
FreeBSD patches the base system with freebsd-update and finds vulnerable packages with pkg audit. Two separate tools, and two separate feeds to watch.
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ZFS on FreeBSD and Linux: the RAM trade-off
ZFS gives a server checksummed data, free snapshots, send/receive replication and cheap compression. The ARC also takes your RAM. How to judge that on a VPS.
FreeBSD jails vs Docker containers
Jails isolate a full FreeBSD userland; Docker ships layered images from a registry. How the two models differ on software, state, networking and limits.
FreeBSD 15 for servers: what makes it good
FreeBSD 15 is a serious server operating system: ZFS, jails, pf, and one coherent base system. Here is what it does well and where it fits.
Linux vs FreeBSD for servers
A fair comparison of Linux and FreeBSD as server systems: base design, licensing, packages, ZFS and jails, containers, and where each one wins.