From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 1 12:30:14 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 C0F4D106566B for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 12:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thomas@gibfest.dk) Received: from mail.tyknet.dk (mail.tyknet.dk [IPv6:2a01:4f8:141:52a3:186::]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5338FC14 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 12:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.20.10.55] (out60.hq.siminn.dk [195.184.109.60]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.tyknet.dk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 60CBDB75A1 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:30:11 +0200 (CEST) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.1 mail.tyknet.dk 60CBDB75A1 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=gibfest.dk; s=default; t=1338553812; bh=NTuAlH8jQFuYQgZPjOz4aOS0mpjgEeupXjDqbr4xheM=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=glHK59+DUe5RgagNgZmYa5bR8rYeOar4svgrlpFOr0sgaA5c3panm2IiJIbVY/KOL l5RL3hl/FrR+FDOR2ITlZ0jmW9Z/tmMlUfWelZ5BATAw3JVoYtiQHwJmkiEBuUrbtF TZNMaQl8awUsjEJB6b1qYHqVx6MCPEUr5v48yvjQ= Message-ID: <4FC8B5D1.40607@gibfest.dk> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:30:09 +0200 From: Thomas Steen Rasmussen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4FC779C0.7020801@ohlste.in> <4FC77EAD.1090900@my.gd> <4FC78A94.8070008@ohlste.in> <4FC79136.6000205@my.gd> <4FC7B4CC.1070507@FreeBSD.org> <4FC87A60.3020102@my.gd> <4FC88827.8020003@FreeBSD.org> <4FC89726.2010601@lavabit.com> <4FC8A9FC.7030704@digsys.bg> In-Reply-To: <4FC8A9FC.7030704@digsys.bg> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:30:14 -0000 On 01-06-2012 13:39, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > Instead, lead by example. Showcase. Demonstrate how superior FreeBSD > is because the people who keep it going are not interested to be the > Jack of All Trades (and master of none). Showcase implementations that > are hard to do with any other OS. This. When we (the Danish BSD usergroup BSD-DK) go to opensource conferences we always have running FreeBSD systems in our booth doing live demos of what FreeBSD can do. This is fun for us and very popular with visitors. - 2010 was pf-pfsync-carp failover firewalls. People get impressed when you pull the plug on one node and stuff keeps running. - 2011 was a HAST/ZFS failover system with a virtualbox VM running on the shared storage. Again, pulling the plug on one node and showing that the VM keeps running has a big 'wow-factor'. - 2012 was the 'year of the jail' for us. We demonstrated jail management with ezjail, recursive jails, ressource control with rctl and lots more. All these have been major successes in the sense that people are impressed, grab a cd and go home to try it out. We often hear that people didn't know that FreeBSD was capable of this and that. I firmly believe that live demonstrations of unique features is the best way to get more (of the right kind of) people to run FreeBSD. Best regards, Thomas Steen Rasmussen Chairman, BSD-DK