From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 1 15:10:14 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 469B9106564A for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:10:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57898FC0A for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q51F9ukX050544; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:10:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id q51F9uMP050543; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:09:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:09:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <201206011509.q51F9uMP050543@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.9.6-20101126 ("Burnside") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.9 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:10:11 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT 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: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:10:14 -0000 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > If you are NOT using FreeBSD for any area or some areas , would you please > list those areas with most important first to least important last ? ISDN. This is popular in Germany, but I don't know about the rest of the world. We have a machine that has an ISDN card (ISA). Currently it's still running FreeBSD 6-stable because that's the last version with full ISDN support. Since 6.x went EOL, it costed me quite some time to keep it up to date with regard to security fixes. And now, since a few days, the Makefiles of the ports collection started to become incompatible with FreeBSD 6 (make(1) throws syntax errors) so I can't update BIND port anymore, for example. Of course I could build it manually, but this is costing more and more time, so finally I will have to think of a different solution, which probably means something other than FreeBSD. Other than that, well, there are the typical programs that are only available for Windows. For example the software for configuring my Logitech "Harmony" remote control. I'm using my wife's laptop (Windows) for that. But of course I'm not blaming FreeBSD for that, because it's not something that FreeBSD can fix, it's rather a vendor problem (in the aforementioned case: Logitech's problem). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.