Comment Re:My FreeBSD Report: Four Months In (Score 1) 471
It has yet to crash even once, unlike Debian and Linux, where I'd get a kernel panic around once a month.
This sounds like the problem right here. What was casing the kernel panics? From what you say you seem extremely competent with *NIX systems, so why didn't you find the cause of the panics?
For what it's worth, I run quite a few Debian-based systems (alright, I'll say it: Ubuntu Server) both on real hardware (commodity and a Dell PowerEdge) and also in AWS (virtual machines in the cloud). I cannot remember my last kernel panic, it has been _years_ since I've seen that.
Note that Ubuntu is still using upstart, so I have never evaluated systemd. I'm not addressing systemd in this post, rather, I'm addressing your oops.