On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:06:55PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 5/30/12 8:20 PM, David Chisnall wrote: > > 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. 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? > > > > David > > > We're using FreeBSD here only for firewall boxes. > > > Reasons for using FBSD for firewalls: > - CARP > - relayd > - PF > - pfsync > > Reasons I can't get management to use FBSD for regular servers (web, > haproxy, db...): > - "hard" to use > - update process is "hard", time-consuming and annoying (as opposed to > debian's for example) > > A regular debian update is 5 minutes + reboot > A regular FBSD update is about 1.5 hour + 3 reboots (after > installkernel, installworld, rebuild of ports)
But how often do you need to update?
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