From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 17:17:03 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF2B5707 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (relay5-d.mail.gandi.net [IPv6:2001:4b98:c:538::197]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F2A8237C for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mfilter24-d.gandi.net (mfilter24-d.gandi.net [217.70.178.152]) by relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D120941C04F for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 19:17:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mfilter24-d.gandi.net Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.197]) by mfilter24-d.gandi.net (mfilter24-d.gandi.net [10.0.15.180]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2vQ32IBi54ks for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 19:16:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Originating-IP: 10.58.1.145 Received: from webmail.gandi.net (unknown [10.58.1.145]) (Authenticated sender: mayuresh@kathe.in) by relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 873D941C056 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 19:16:59 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 22:46:59 +0530 From: Mayuresh Kathe To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: it feels good to be back ... Reply-To: mayuresh@kathe.in Mail-Reply-To: mayuresh@kathe.in Message-ID: <01f1afa4f49cd01a0eaa0d136e946fb3@kathe.in> X-Sender: mayuresh@kathe.in User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:17:03 -0000 hello, i had mistakenly posted a similar mail to freebsd-questions. :) i am finally back in freebsd land, and it feels good. after my good experiences with freebsd (especially the mailing lists), i figured, it would be unwise to not give the other bsd systems a look. so, i went off and landed in netbsd land, and golly, it was a good experience, the community is quite friendly and the system feels quite zippy, but after using it a while, i felt uncomfortable, don't know what exactly, but, it just didn't feel like home. i then moved over to openbsd land, and golly, are they still grumpy out there! but their system has been improved to a very high degree, much better than what i tried out a year back, but again, it just didn't feel quite like home. so i came back to freebsd, and all seems well. the system is so well engineered and takes into consideration users needs from a very pragmatic point-of-view, that it feels quite natural working with it. so, thanks to the freebsd team and it's user community, for giving me a reason to continue with freebsd. :) best, ~mayuresh