Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 12:06:55 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <4FC742BF.4080005@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org> References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org>
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On 5/30/12 8:20 PM, 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 We're using FreeBSD here only for firewall boxes. Reasons for using FBSD for firewalls: - CARP - relayd - PF - pfsync Reasons I can't get management to use FBSD for regular servers (web, haproxy, db...): - "hard" to use - update process is "hard", time-consuming and annoying (as opposed to debian's for example) A regular debian update is 5 minutes + reboot A regular FBSD update is about 1.5 hour + 3 reboots (after installkernel, installworld, rebuild of ports)
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