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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2012 12:03:03 +0200
From:      Jerome Herman <jherman@dichotomia.fr>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <19cb30d8b44b556faedcdff59ebb2503@mail.dichotomia.fr>
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On Wed, 30 May 2012 19:20:31 +0100, David Chisnall
<theraven@FreeBSD.org> 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?
> 
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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 

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