From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 21:22:04 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 298CA106566B for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 21:22:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cjr@cruwe.de) Received: from cruwe.de (cruwe.de [188.40.164.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15998FC0A for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 21:22:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cruwe.de (unknown [127.0.0.4]) by cruwe.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C03A7D061 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 21:21:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by cruwe.de (Postfix, from userid 65534) id A2F7BD060; Wed, 30 May 2012 21:21:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mail.cruwe.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from dijkstra.cruwe.de (p5B37A4F4.dip.t-dialin.net [91.55.164.244]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by cruwe.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C865D05E for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 21:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 23:21:35 +0200 From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120530232135.3fd90d9a@dijkstra.cruwe.de> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV on mail.cruwe.de using ClamSMTP 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 21:22:04 -0000 On Wed, 30 May 2012 19:20:31 +0100 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" 1) Stability in the meaning of "does not break config semantics from one second to the other without mentioning". 2) Help from the list which not only solves your problem, but teaches! also. 3) Features like ZFS, PF, periodic, ZFS ... I could name many more, but you wanted the top three and I am not really sure about the order, so I just typed down those which came to mind first. BTW, I got hooked coming from Gentoo, so I am sure I would miss and then list many more FreeBSD-likables when I would be forced away. Cheers, Christopher