From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 18:59:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE7E106564A for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 18:59:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from apeiron@isuckatdomains.net) Received: from isuckatdomains.net (unknown [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:4::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1974A8FC14 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 18:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isuckatdomains.members.linode.com (isuckatdomains.net [74.207.243.179]) by isuckatdomains.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D1C0145A94 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 14:59:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:59:01 -0400 From: Chris Nehren To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120530185901.GB7853@isuckatdomains.members.linode.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 18:59:03 -0000 On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 19:20:31 +0100 , David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic, ... and not wrapped at <80 characters. > 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? 1. Solaris features without being beholden to Oracle. 2. The FreeBSD community focuses more on tech than on licensing and political activism like a certain freeware Unix "alike". 3. The ports system does a far better job of balancing tracking recent software releases and stability than other systems of the same sort (most typically exemplified by certain popular Unix "alikes"). Bonus round, something subjective: 4. Everything "feels right" and "makes sense" on a very deep level for me, in a way that never happened with the other Unix and Unix "alike" OSs I've used. The first item is not the same as when I started using FreeBSD, because those features didn't exist in FreeBSD at the time. The third reason is what actually brought me to FreeBSD, after I became frustrated at the seeming inability of Unix "alike" maintainers to maintain that balance of recent software and stability (Ubuntu didn't exist at the time, and the less time I spend using that the better). -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren