From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 18:52:43 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 3049C106564A; Wed, 30 May 2012 18:52:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pldrouin@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 C995F8FC1D; Wed, 30 May 2012 18:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl8 with SMTP id l8so165571yen.13 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 11:52:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=+ej/o3lAHm77FBQIk1Gpr7DfbE2t2D2HFYYrnOXridw=; b=EoMDfHCaarNFRmpR4l2XfhMvzIVjya3fNHm6lhrdn8AUDapubwc+Yc9HJqbJ+GLGKa 0o1OjWpMbN5/Z6Bimc1uTQ/Htvgq631eugz8QA6/QapTzTle1CEDts0CbmdliXxoX0+c GI0Xs01sJiA8ZqiQ8yyhzCZ4sNpHX8S0rozQE80x+z+WSFreOnoOaXItSNk14N7p8VBS YQ/P3zHmKXw7Abxmdvy68GXZ5NlyoKVF5JIOzowtm+RMbm+G4xAe55YJc7vHIOVF6/oz DSqxDuels6KGcpY24bWd4PsqQjPe8XZFG+fCWI1BqNAs3Vss/6qPFRduBLKO8AnmUTSq XjGA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.182.231 with SMTP id eh7mr2356810igc.42.1338403962081; Wed, 30 May 2012 11:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Sender: pldrouin@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.44.74 with HTTP; Wed, 30 May 2012 11:52:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:52:42 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cErpexXg9QGXX5yGJBuXo6g8ZEI Message-ID: From: Pierre-Luc Drouin To: David Chisnall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 18:52:43 -0000 On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:20 PM, 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? > > 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" > For me it is: -Stability -Well-structured OS (i.e. filesystem, kernel and its config, etc) -The ports system These are also the elements that made me start using FreeBSD about a decade ago. So these are mainly consequences of the development strategy of FreeBSD, as opposed to the free for all approach of Linux. Personally, what makes me choose Linux over FreeBSD for laptop usage is the very limited acpi support of FreeBSD (suspend and resume) compared to Linux.