From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 14:30:30 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 44E1A106566C for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 14:30:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adams-freebsd@ateamsystems.com) Received: from fss.sandiego.ateamservers.com (fss.sandiego.ateamservers.com [69.55.229.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2971A8FC1C for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 14:30:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.15.220] (unknown [118.175.84.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by fss.sandiego.ateamservers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DBC6FB9F22; Thu, 31 May 2012 10:30:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FC78087.2000004@ateamsystems.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 21:30:31 +0700 From: Adam Strohl Organization: A-Team Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Damien Fleuriot References: <4FC779C0.7020801@ohlste.in> <4FC77EAD.1090900@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <4FC77EAD.1090900@my.gd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 14:30:30 -0000 On 5/31/2012 21:22, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 5/31/12 4:01 PM, Jim Ohlstein wrote: >> To add others, in no particular order: >> >> Ease of upgrade. While some have noted that binary upgrades are easier >> on Debian, it's far and away superior, IMMHO, to have a locally compiled >> system. Many Linux distros have no upgrade path short of a wipe and >> re-install. >> > Far superior, check, FAR MORE TIME CONSUMING, check as well ! This brings up another point: Repair is always possible with FreeBSD. You can back out all packages or types of packages easily (and re-compile or reinstall them if needed). You can recompile/reinstall the OS if needed (somewhere else too and copy it over). Or just copy pieces from a live cd or restore tarball. And it's pretty straightforward to do even for a non-admin person. You can even restore over a live running system with tar, which I do occasionally when cloning machines or restoring them with dump/restore. Very slick.