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Why we're migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD

Why we’re migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD.
We started a complex, continuous and not always linear operation, that is to migrate, where possible, most of the servers from Linux to FreeBSD. Here’s why.

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