What initially drew you to use GhostBSD?

vimanuelt

Fred usually asks this question, I thought it would be nice to add it here.
What initially drew you to use GhostBSD instead of other BSDs or Linux distributions?

Robin

Ethics.

That probably sounds weird coming from a boy with little tech experience, but my tech choices - like all my other choices - are driven as much by ethics as they are by practicality and preference.

I've come to believe that Linux - down to the kernel itself - has been corrupted by Big Money, and become unnecessarily politicized. I switched to GhostBSD for ethics; I switched from Firefox and Thunderbird to ungoogled-chromium and Evolution for ethics. Even though all these products work well and are free, open-source projects, one cannot support such projects without also supporting their unethical and political agendas.

vimanuelt

What attracted me to GhostBSD was the poor condition of Linux at that time. I was also growing tired of the unnecessary complexity involved in managing LVM on a large scale at work. The situation with ext4 was also unpleasant, because file systems would suddenly become read-only due to a known bug that Red Hat was slow to address.

When Linux began to show stability issues at home, I remembered that I never experienced this level of trouble with Solaris when using ZFS. Those systems operated smoothly for many years. However, modern Solaris has become very slow.

I already had experience using the four major BSD systems and had even tried MidnightBSD. When I first installed GhostBSD, I immediately felt that it offered a much better experience compared to the other BSDs.

brianthehughes

The noise of the Linux world, and some short-lived experiments and experiences have always led me AWAY from Linux. I know nothing (and care even less) for the political/social/eco-drama that many discuss when it comes to Linux. To me, technological tools should not espouse and express their opinion any more than a hammer or cordless drill.

Every time I try to solve a problem or achieve a goal with technology, where I have applied *BSD (FreeBSD historically), I am pleasantly surprised by the relative ease of implementation.

My needs are usually server/service based - nginx, Apache, MySQL, PHP, python, java - FreeBSD has a history of solidly supporting these platforms.

With GhostBSD I have increasingly explored the potential of virtual machines for testing, and system experimentation.

The cleanliness of GhostBSD and my early testing using GhostBSD in parrallel AND as a cluster node in with FreeBSD systems sealed the deal for me.