From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 19:19:14 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 0E012106564A; Wed, 30 May 2012 19:19:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adams-freebsd@ateamsystems.com) Received: from fss.sandiego.ateamservers.com (fss.sandiego.ateamservers.com [69.55.229.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73D18FC15; Wed, 30 May 2012 19:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.15.220] (unknown [118.175.84.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by fss.sandiego.ateamservers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D3965B9033; Wed, 30 May 2012 15:12:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FC67118.2030503@ateamsystems.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 02:12:24 +0700 From: Adam Strohl Organization: A-Team Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Chisnall References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 19:19:14 -0000 On 5/31/2012 1:20, David Chisnall wrote: > 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. High performance with security and stability focus -- truly makes it=20 the ideal server platform 2. The ports system (and supporting tools like portupgrade, portaudit, et= c) 3. The OS "makes sense" (as Chris N. mentioned). The file system=20 layout, tools, etc are consistent. There is so much other stuff too. Like PF and CARP, ZFS and more ... a = kick-ass combo of features and very server-focused. As a professional admin FreeBSD is a pleasure to work with day in and=20 day out. I've never heard a admins of "other" OSes say that :P