From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 10:05:08 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 495B31065670; Thu, 31 May 2012 10:05:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jherman@dichotomia.fr) Received: from mail.dichotomia.fr (hydrogen.dichotomia.net [91.121.82.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC0658FC08; Thu, 31 May 2012 10:04:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.dichotomia.fr (unknown [91.121.82.228]) (Authenticated sender: kha) by mail.dichotomia.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6ED83DD055; Thu, 31 May 2012 12:03:03 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 12:03:03 +0200 From: Jerome Herman To: David Chisnall Organization: Dichotomia In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <19cb30d8b44b556faedcdff59ebb2503@mail.dichotomia.fr> X-Sender: jherman@dichotomia.fr User-Agent: Dichotomia Webmail/0.4 X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mail.dichotomia.fr); Thu, 31 May 2012 12:03:03 +0200 (CEST) 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: Thu, 31 May 2012 10:05:08 -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" There are lots of reasons but in my mind the top three are : 1 - It works 2 - It works everytime 3 - It works everytime the way I expected it to work. I would like to be able to say this about any other OS, the closest I ever got to this level of reliability and reproductibility in behaviour was with VAX-VMS. -- Jérôme Herman Directeur Technique 06 14 37 76 28