From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 11:03:25 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 D13501065688; Thu, 31 May 2012 11:03:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leschnik@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gh0-f172.google.com (mail-gh0-f172.google.com [209.85.160.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7845E8FC21; Thu, 31 May 2012 11:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbg16 with SMTP id g16so723258ghb.17 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 04:03:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=860AgE97ttwr1F6RGSJxEIzdhpr7kQnrmJ97kBJvskk=; b=t0hwfXUjRJLtXIXR6S3JPSkOlu9e14DhVnzWGQpMmE/oLyVCICIHjox+bi5p3B+DSX cUn5BKkaZz4Ms3FZb1CaFPz10KESpak1wUlo66jbEP2FmgwWSukw3zvQixnvtFGoWoqK r8PyJS80bro/MrWnetbPqN9aql1ASZeGDtrah+nWpmp4wFxhQMq5zfYYTi3B/SEl935F JIZVkEzOlk6B523Gy1tKoIELyFbS86vcWguhhQ1T+wHqNRmEAejGPf9bSSYFGRcNskP0 6f+oxa6bcxrnaL8NJtIOsoQgLDlbGmXqmOK+rXpaNiBBGpRdbDWBJiECZh4Y8AXVFf5I uo7w== Received: by 10.236.190.168 with SMTP id e28mr1807583yhn.57.1338462204889; Thu, 31 May 2012 04:03:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.92.17 with HTTP; Thu, 31 May 2012 04:03:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Jason Leschnik Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 21:03:04 +1000 Message-ID: To: Pierre-Luc Drouin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, David Chisnall 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 11:03:26 -0000 I've only been using FreeBSD for about ~2 years, the thing i really like about FreeBSD is the stability of the configuration system. Placement of configuration files and startup scripts make life easier in daily administration. The things i'm using FreeBSD for? # Gateway Router # Squid Proxy cache # Web Server (Apache 2.2) #> Wordpress Blog # Primary/Secondary DNS (Bind) # DHCP # PXE Boot machine # Syslog Server # Firewall (very much in love with PF) I'm not really confident with updates yet, still learning so yet to push a FreeBSD machine into production. Thanks. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Chisnall wro= te: > >> 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. =A0= If >> you had to list the three things you most like about FreeBSD, which woul= d >> you pick? =A0Are 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= " >> > > For me it is: > > -Stability > -Well-structured OS (i.e. filesystem, kernel and its config, etc) > -The ports system > > These are also the elements that made me start using FreeBSD about a deca= de > ago. So these are mainly consequences of the development strategy of > FreeBSD, as opposed to the free for all approach of Linux. Personally, wh= at > makes me choose Linux over FreeBSD for laptop usage is the very limited > acpi support of FreeBSD (suspend and resume) compared to Linux. > _______________________________________________ > 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" --=20 Regards, Jason Leschnik. [m] 0432 35 4224 [w@] jason dot leschnik ansto dot gov dot au [U@]=A0jml974@uow.edu.au