From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 20:31:26 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 D71461065678; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:31:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3913A8FC18; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkvi18 with SMTP id i18so273812bkv.13 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 13:31:25 -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:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5Rwrj1E//70J4DS/Z2GCG9IoAsHlsCbYurKYaXwxjQ4=; b=yPLSHEn89zt0dxEkRmsULO5ls2sZwdsEnuqz6EuMcF5RWOODdkX3zbzFg2M7lQo16+ kfuDIC08IKhzsMgiXR+uazfhL6R2+gyNrscSqIDcP/rknPHfodcYaGtak8X+l3KlmaSE FBWqnGspUJ25Ujhc79HC/Tlub7kb9gxJ9kgLXGATyNu3GFcxAX7qrfOGtMHo/mZ9SCi0 fIBhgYGFW50OAmchdem8fw6E9zSJbbomxgO0KOU/TLa0Sh4xGW/aKcw9HXf+sTIqQ9e4 IFbVL1XLkZ/aHWK15F8YXPgLBudtshByJib91JF6BkEz2kWMrJQjWu+1Tv/GGihJQQfF /INg== Received: by 10.205.33.136 with SMTP id so8mr9754955bkb.1.1338409885249; Wed, 30 May 2012 13:31:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.171.138 with HTTP; Wed, 30 May 2012 13:30:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Chris Rees Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 21:30:55 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mP46IBuQxA9_CSX0OHvr1tfzmvU Message-ID: To: David Chisnall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 20:31:26 -0000 On 30 May 2012 19:20, David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending i= t 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 a= dvertises 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. =A0If you = had to list the three things you most like about FreeBSD, which would you p= ick? =A0Are they the same as when you first started using it? > You might not have wanted opinions from developers... but 1) Complete base system-- if I mess up badly with ports I can delete them all and still have a usable system to recover from 2) Simplicity of configuration-- mostly configured with flat text files rather than directories full of conf files 3) Friendly community; easy to get support from people who really know what they're doing. Chris