Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 21:03:04 +1000 From: Jason Leschnik <leschnik@gmail.com> To: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <CAN1XHtemn8GDSS9To9OmVS=b7-x6hN4V50rMHy-w4qjMiyU=dQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANT0rcsSr_O9D2bmBnbWBv234sYBp-HdWe=anJRCHjN0Pbq-MA@mail.gmail.com> References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org> <CANT0rcsSr_O9D2bmBnbWBv234sYBp-HdWe=anJRCHjN0Pbq-MA@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>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 <at> ansto dot gov dot au [U@]=A0jml974@uow.edu.au
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