From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 01:14:09 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 7E0E2106564A for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 01:14:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brian@brianwhalen.net) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C35F8FC12 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 01:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dadv36 with SMTP id v36so580301dad.13 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 18:14:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=jJQkK79ctIEH0tbL6/V+w8OtkMtBFNSLkjwA74KYvw4=; b=M7HHUxupaXEVG5O1BNC7uGyDjFm0ydf/tMB/qB2/gaxp25pALkMRK+5Yeh8xtq1x5k 5irWJwD7YQ740hwjQA8QkesSyuzGX89wSFPOndxSI3mkz/tE4EnwrSvWjJmk/8f06IRL xZeDSwoJGff4orQyhk/Pzf7pc0ThxRcYhzadhM9woP/mkRGELPiKXI70V5MU9KLsnX1V o0B67veOar361agJQd8SYdZbzbT42OB+Yche0gRSbgpGg/7v0IHGBr/9Z2WhUGyyn1zk UbwrgF/QEzf5cr/CmDLExxyzKgMB088lJZfyhU0TxQBUc2DTkRBn3IpumAMIqzkgobVE MzwQ== Received: by 10.68.232.135 with SMTP id to7mr671864pbc.143.1338426848125; Wed, 30 May 2012 18:14:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.5.6] (dsl093-034-235.snd1.dsl.speakeasy.net. [66.93.34.235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id qq2sm2281666pbc.27.2012.05.30.18.14.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 May 2012 18:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FC6C5E2.2060103@brianwhalen.net> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 18:14:10 -0700 From: Brian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkxtsEkqJJETlGWXCS6p6ZQcjRYCkQttAsi+U+ABywZqSkODrjHrjx3p/jgi1j3EQwAdvoJ 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: Thu, 31 May 2012 01:14:09 -0000 On 5/30/2012 11:20 AM, 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" SMP support (pause) new (longer pause) I spent as little time as possible in version 5.x. For me there are a few reasons I like FreeBSD. I was first introduced to FreeBSD by a coworker in 1997 or so. I had tried a bit of Linux before that. I was working for a SunOS/Solaris using ISP at the time; so when I tried FreeBSD it did seem to make more sense to me. The keys are these. The filesystem layout just makes much more intuitive sense to me. If I want a barebones system where I just add what I want to it, that is easily available. Minimal install + packages/ports I need has been my approach for awhile. Although I have gotten in trouble with the FreeBSD ports/packages system, the tools that FreeBSD includes make it much easier to recover from package dependency messes than the Linux version so lovingly called RPM hell The stable version is pretty reliable; I have been tracking -stable on a couple home mail servers for several years, perhaps a decade. In all that time, I only once had a serious problem, caused by drive detection changes; I used ee to edit some files and I was all set. Brian Whalen