Another motivation is the fact that in the FreeBSD HandBook the chapter dedicated to installing Oracle is referred to version Oracle 8.0.5, which is quite old, this circumstance stimulated my curiosity.
For failing be certified by Oracle, this platform is not suitable for a production environment, which does not diminish the utility as a test environment and even a development environment for small projects, depends on the risk you want to take.
The advantages of using FreeBSD as an infrastructure for virtualized environments are:
- ZFS File System.
- Virtual network stack.
- Network security with pf.
- Dtrace performance analysis.
- Debian GNU is one of the most reliable Linux distribution and have a very predictable release cycle.
- Using a complete distribution saves us a lot of work when you install Oracle.
- Provide updated technical documentation.