Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:57:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <201206011857.q51IvqN3049343@office.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOgwaMvsv3e1TxDauV038Pp7LRiYeH7oAODE%2Bw-pxHt9oGrXMA@mail.gmail.com>
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We used to have FreeBSD exclusively on desktops... Now, we have migrated to other desktops (mac) with FreeBSD running the build and file server... Why? Because - the mac updates itself! No pain, no installation, no keeping-up with mailing lists/announcements, just <click> and its done. Mac OS has a nice X11 server, the Mac UI is good enough, you don't have to install/update anything, the "app store" is perfect for downloading/installing whatever a desktop user might need. It was just too alluring... So, FreeBSD runs our NFS file server, and we log into a larger FreeBSD machine to do builds, etc... but, the desktop has moved. One developer here uses Linux Debian for about the same reason, it's trivial to update (via the network) to new versions, etc... Our web site used to be FreeBSD-based, but it was just too cost-effective to get a virtual Linux box on the backbone and move everything to that. Our requirements aren't too big, so that works beautifully. There _are_ people doing virtual FreeBSD boxes in a similar fashion, but they were quote a lot more for the annual fee.. so, Linux it was... I suppose, in some sense, you could argue that MacOS is FreeBSD... - Dave Rivers - -- rivers Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com
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