An article about the boring reliability of BSD in The Register has me intrigued. I don’t have experience working with BSD but I like the concept of an operating system that limits the drama. A quiet backwater where things actually work sounds great.
This is not a knock on Linux. Linux is popular for good reason and there are flavors of Linux that appeal to the “move slowly and don’t break things” philosophy in BSD with other distros aiming towards the bleeding edge. But, there is something comforting about a system that has less hype.
I’ve got a Dell server that we pulled out of service a few years ago sitting on a shelf. I might just dust it off, fire it up and see what the lack-of-hype about BSD is all about.