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An alternative OS for an heterogeneous infrastructure.

For example, when there is a security bug in Linux you can shutdown those servers and spin up FreeBSD ones while the patch is being made.

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I guess that makes some sense if you were already running both operating systems in production. Maintaining an alternative stack would be almost twice the work otherwise.

It depends on the risk. Sometimes shutting down vulnerable servers is not worth it.

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