Re: Which OS would you choose given a free choice

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>> I'm getting a new server and was planning on going with Fedora Core 3
>> and plesk. But it was just suggested that I maybe consider FreeBSD and
>> DA. Never even heard of DA (about to look it up) but being a Mac user
>> I must know a little about FreeBSD.
>>
>> So if you had a free choice of OS and control panel what would you go
>> with and why.
>>
> FreeBSD hands down. Stability, security, and speed. The new Linux 
> kernel is supposed to be faster by some tricks or some such, but I 
> have not had good luck with stability and Linux especially under heavy 
> load.  I prefer the FreeBSD philosophy as well.  Linux is, by its very 
> nature, chaos incarnate.

FreeBSD is fast, clean, and well-supported. Best server OS I've used.