FreeBSD vs Debian

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I chose FreeBSD because I wanted ZFS. And ZFS works great in FreeBSD much better then in Debian. Where it is a hassle to get things going and it's also very difficult setting things up.
But Debian has Audiobookshelf and ZfDash. I can live without ZfDash but not Audiobookshelf. Debian has so many processes going on I donät know what is happening. FreeBSD gives me full control and the Firewall is much better. That said I switched back to Debian because of lack of hardware and software support. FreeBSD is great as a music server. Navidrome works. Musicpd works. Samba works very well. But my DAC does not work. Not a big problem since I use Volumio. I had two boots that failed. I had to initiate the boots again. Don't know what happened. This occured in FreeBSD never happened in Debian. No software configuration failures that I know of. If I could I would port Audiobookshelf. I am going back to FreeBSD whenever I can. I trust the system much more then Debian. I would trus FreeBSD as a web server instantly. OpenBSD as well. Not so much Debian.
 
I don't know what "boot failure" means, but it might be worth considering running both systems.

You can set up virtualisation to run Debian and let it have control of the devices that don't work properly in FreeBSD.

If the applications you want use X11, you can possibly set them up to run in Linux and display on FreeBSD. With Wayland, I'm not sure of the state of things now, but forwarding windows may be possible with matching desktop environments like KDE Plasma or Gnome. VNC is available as a last option.
 
FreeBSD didn't boot thats all I remember. I got an error message. I just rebooted and tried anew. It worked and everything booted normally. It happened twice out of perhaps 10-30 boots. ZFS works very well. Much better than in Debian. Thats why I chose FreeBSD until I heard TrueNAS had gone over to using Debian. FreeBSD and Debian runs on +18 year old hardware. Both OS runs like a charm. Beautifully that is. I really don't need Audiobookshelf until I build a TrueNAS which wont happen with todays SSD and RAM prices.
 
bios_23498234908 said:
FreeBSD didn't boot thats all I remember. I got an error message. I just rebooted and tried anew. It worked and everything booted normally. It happened twice out of perhaps 10-30 boots.
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Doesn't sound like the issue is FreeBSD. Knowing the exact error message is kind of crucial in determining what the problem was, so it's a shame you don't have it.

bios_23498234908 said:
I build a TrueNAS
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Keep in mind that TrueNAS is not supported here. We only support FreeBSD, none of its derivatives.
 
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