08-07-2010
I've been using FreeBSD for about 10 years now -- starting with an install of 4.0 on my laptop. Prior to that I did most of my work on Sun O/S (pre Solaris and Solaris) systems and had no problem making the switch. At the office, FreeBSD is the preferred O/S for our clusters. We do have some boxes that run Linux or Solaris, but in the last 10 years we've had better success with our BSD systems.
FreeBSD is straight forward to install, and the ports collection makes it fairly easy to install the support software that you need.
The only heartburn we've had with FreeBSD is the lack of hardware support for some 'odd' devices, and we currently have a set of (older) motherboards that seem not to be compatible with anything after BSD 6.3. Unfortunately I cannot offer any details on these hardware issues as I'm not directly involved with this project and only know that the sysadmins ran into this glitch.
Using FreeBSD as a workstation has been great. Flash has always been a nagging problem under BSD; offset somewhat by being able to use the Linux flash player in a "compatibility" mode, but flash has always been a pain for me under BSD.
Would I recommend FreeBSD to a friend? Absolutely, especially for 'lights out' operations like it sounds you'll be using it for.
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padlock
PADLOCK(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual PADLOCK(4)
NAME
padlock -- driver for the cryptographic functions and RNG in VIA C3, C7 and Eden processors
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device crypto
device padlock
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
padlock_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The C3 and Eden processor series from VIA include hardware acceleration for AES. The C7 series includes hardware acceleration for AES, SHA1,
SHA256 and RSA. All of the above processor series include a hardware random number generator.
The padlock driver registers itself to accelerate AES operations and, if available, HMAC/SHA1 and HMAC/SHA256 for crypto(4). It also regis-
ters itself to accelerate other HMAC algorithms, although there is no hardware acceleration for those algorithms. This is only needed so
padlock can work with ipsec(4).
The hardware random number generator supplies data for the kernel random(4) subsystem.
SEE ALSO
crypt(3), crypto(4), intro(4), ipsec(4), random(4), crypto(9)
HISTORY
The padlock driver first appeared in OpenBSD. The first FreeBSD release to include it was FreeBSD 6.0.
AUTHORS
The padlock driver with AES encryption support was written by Jason Wright <jason@OpenBSD.org>. It was ported to FreeBSD and then extended
to support SHA1 and SHA256 by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>. This manual page was written by Christian Brueffer
<brueffer@FreeBSD.org>.
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February 8, 2010 BSD