From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 20:26:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED78A106566C; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:26:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver.pntr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960E88FC17; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl8 with SMTP id l8so271552yen.13 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 13:26:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=suobJTz5+OJlviOmZQlsmPSkzDIKu/WOCC+hY0I3Fho=; b=qleMlRVFgz8CTobpvVxLx6qTh2Di6n8PgDfSCiRROK0LlNP7XH1l64uskHHndDBgba TEpNSXKjHKYJ6zVDfRGGhHdoCrRXfHsT5FUS1Z2Jb6pRteDKLZ3a6goNbh2BtOX8PPja 33lyt5YETEN149wesryN2eZjk2DI4GVzR+nfaVYWgh+UqbO2XmT0hxPRLvzVvzS2G/Tq /3/DDN5HEgjkOc3eh8uA7yz20eatFcW8xfQSX/sM+f98q1/IuXlIrNKReG/h3L0pAjfx 8+q24ep6d9cZyZIUK2AVoJCIQmzXSlBwmtlQ/aR/KN0lSttViXjGaVc2QK0Sz6IqLGj/ Nu5w== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.135.22 with SMTP id m22mr4407932ann.67.1338409615925; Wed, 30 May 2012 13:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.44.73 with HTTP; Wed, 30 May 2012 13:26:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 22:26:55 +0200 Message-ID: From: Oliver Pinter To: David Chisnall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:26:57 -0000 On 5/30/12, David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it > to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. > > I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which > advertises exciting new features like SMP support), and before I do I'd like > to get a better feel for why the rest of you are using FreeBSD. If you had > to list the three things you most like about FreeBSD, which would you pick? > Are they the same as when you first started using it? Hi! Likes (sorry, not only 3 item): ---------------------------------------------------------- 1) FreeBSD is NOT Linux = FreeBSD is stable, reliable, simple (there are no automated brainfucks... like udev, hal and dbus in base system) 2) has a clean source, and FreeBSD is maintainable: if there are a working driver in N+2 version, I have a much bigger chance, that working in N too 3) is highly configurable (~ 1) ), I like rc.conf and sysctl (linux's procfs and sysfs is a chaos ...) 4) FreeBSD has a ports system, that contained KDE3 5) well documented 6) not fragmented as Linux, (relation to many distro, that not have idea/goal) 7) not GPL 8) FreeBSD is a complete system, and not just a kernel + random thing from everywhere, and not hackish Are they the same as when you first started using it? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- yes > > David_______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >