From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 10:07:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9101065675 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 10:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9632B8FC1A for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 10:06:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eabm6 with SMTP id m6so268637eab.13 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 03:06:58 -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=aMIej+WERr0ediVqfhQ1Kf3my0kCPV/Z24hhohuBkb0=; b=bC9qHHL9x4v9YYCyV7n5QmBOJ/7HFdWS5+BLJPLv2XY2T2GCwGVe7nAEhhZlOI7TIf 4G509USNK5TVztUDJ80Vsuys0+jPmqtjT7gL6dIlUfytL982IuNgPBxv+6DkJ3oYUS2z uCJLhkBxmMdtYnVE/oKgjVY+Mb+wMf2MPFpMaq6Otdz4M1XoSVPM5LHUb88oKlJ3eVdl SmWgqIbq241Wt2O3x4dcSDlDV93DvBXLogxLzfUlza1XQbt9/yahzx0NeMkWNdvtSymF eaes5boTzqP2ufmAm5olYIHkRonuXdfwnUiwfcKHjEg/1VNTfTkzAljOjsiaKcU6Mwix /eOw== Received: by 10.14.100.142 with SMTP id z14mr8720120eef.91.1338458818439; Thu, 31 May 2012 03:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q53sm8636384eef.8.2012.05.31.03.06.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 31 May 2012 03:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FC742BF.4080005@my.gd> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 12:06:55 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnxBdyx645FrwVXeeHD/J2+764wnzEbL+m7QIxpmgKKdZDB5wLGWnXuIWW6OzE/TH0RsQkZ 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 10:07:00 -0000 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)