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Unless I've missed something (and I may have!), FreeBSD's jails have a very respectable security track record. Really, really want to make use of them.

I can't give up Debian's package system, though, so I'm left hoping that kFreeBSD will amount to something someday and I use Xen or KVM in the meantime... :-(

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> I can't give up Debian's package system, though

Why not? What would you miss from it?

I run Debian Testing and FreeBSD 10. I haven't found too much from Debian that I can't get in FreeBSD 10. I could even run a Debian/kFreeBSD jail if I really wanted to.

What really does my head in is that a default Debian install can pull down 2 megabytes a second from a server over SFTP, and a default FreeBSD 10 server can only do ~800 kilobytes per second (FreeBSD 9 was worse).

> What really does my head in is that a default Debian install can pull down 2 megabytes a second from a server over SFTP, and a default FreeBSD 10 server can only do ~800 kilobytes per second

Shouldn't be that much of a difference. You might try OpenSSH from ports, maybe the HPN patches will help if you're on a high latency connection.

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