On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 19:20:31 +0100 , David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic,
... and not wrapped at <80 characters. > 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. If you had to list the three things you most like about > FreeBSD, which would you pick? Are they the same as when you first > started using it? 1. Solaris features without being beholden to Oracle. 2. The FreeBSD community focuses more on tech than on licensing and political activism like a certain freeware Unix "alike". 3. The ports system does a far better job of balancing tracking recent software releases and stability than other systems of the same sort (most typically exemplified by certain popular Unix "alikes"). Bonus round, something subjective: 4. Everything "feels right" and "makes sense" on a very deep level for me, in a way that never happened with the other Unix and Unix "alike" OSs I've used. The first item is not the same as when I started using FreeBSD, because those features didn't exist in FreeBSD at the time. The third reason is what actually brought me to FreeBSD, after I became frustrated at the seeming inability of Unix "alike" maintainers to maintain that balance of recent software and stability (Ubuntu didn't exist at the time, and the less time I spend using that the better). -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
