FreeBSD or Linux for your MySQL Server? (by Jeremy Zawodny)[UPDATE: There's important new information in this article.] This is an issue that comes up all the time at work. It is an issue for roughly four reasons: Yahoo is a FreeBSD shop Someone has heard that MySQL runs better on Linux Someone knows that we run some of our servers on Linux rather than FreeBSD, and Yahoo is a FreeBSD shop (see #1), so they start to infer #2. Most of the MySQL development
