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CoreOS vs FreeBSD: What are the differences?
What is CoreOS? Linux for Massive Server Deployments. CoreOS is designed for security, consistency, and reliability. Instead of installing packages via yum or apt, CoreOS uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many CoreOS machines.
What is FreeBSD? An operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. An operating system for a variety of platforms which focuses on features, speed, and stability. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large community.
CoreOS and FreeBSD belong to "Operating Systems" category of the tech stack.
FreeBSD is an open source tool with 4.37K GitHub stars and 1.72K GitHub forks. Here's a link to FreeBSD's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, CoreOS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 45 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to FreeBSD, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
Pros of CoreOS
- Container management20
- Lightweight15
- Systemd9
Pros of FreeBSD
- Excellent as Server8
- Very Stable6
- Helpful community4
- Free to use2
- Extremely simple updates and compiles of kernel and use2
- Good for Cloud - Nextcloud2
- Ports and packages system is mature and well-supported2
- Easy to install1
- Supported by major cloud platforms1
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Cons of CoreOS
- End-of-lifed3
Cons of FreeBSD
- Slower to adopt non-server hardware than Linux1
- Poor support for laptops, especially wireless cards1
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