HACKER Q&A
📣 vanilla-almond

Linux or BSD for a web server?


Would either be fine? Or do you prefer one over the other? What are the reasons? Thanks


  👤 eb0la Accepted Answer ✓
My heart says OpenBSD; but I belive it is better to use Linux in a company (not yours) usually because you can get more people to use/embrace Linux because it is commodity.

If you are building your own product/service; then OpenBSD security could give you some kind of unlawful advantage that Linux won't.


👤 a3n
Linux if you don't understand why you would want BSD. BSD if you do.

👤 gmuslera
Not enough context. The people that will maintain it, what you will be serving, in which infrastructure, workflow around it, time, the rest of the system and more could change which one would be the "best". With all those factors unknown, I would probably take Linux.

👤 rvz
Either is fine. But from a security standpoint: OpenBSD.

👤 billconan
I would use linux because my dev machine is linux. I want production env match my dev env, for easy debugging and issue reproducing.

👤 cordaciu
I only had Linux severs for web servers (Cent OS and Ubuntu Server) ... I didn't have a problem and I stuck with the winning team.

👤 kjs3
You don't define your use case, so it's really impossible to answer.