Thanks to all who replied, both on and off list. I've attempted to distill the
replies that I got into a coherent summary. I've put the draft on the wiki
here:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/WhyUseFreeBSD
Feedback welcome!
David
On 30 May 2012, at 19:20, David Chisnall wrote:
>
Hi Dru,
On 11 Jun 2012, at 20:33, Dru Lavigne wrote:
> The BSDCG gets requests quite often from employers who are looking for admins
> with BSD skills. We refer them to our BSDA certified linked in group as its
> members are all BSDA certified. There is also a linkedin group for those
> intere
On 12 Jun 2012, at 22:15, Jared Barneck wrote:
> Or you could start a company that uses FreeBSD on such systems and see if you
> can make it...
Someone did: http://semihalf.com/
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It's quite difficult to do meaningful comparisons. For example, we have a port
for gcc 4.7, but Debian has, last time I counted, over ten distinct packages
for each GCC release. There are other places where we have split things up
into multiple ports, but other operating systems use a single o
On 1 Apr 2014, at 08:11, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 1. Power. As you point out, being truly power efficient is a complete
> top-to-bottom engineering effort and it takes a lot more than just trying to
> idle the processor whenever possible to achieve that. You need to optimize
> all of the hot-
On 1 Apr 2014, at 23:10, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Audio output is pretty system dependent, but I had little problem getting
> my audio to auto-switch to headphones when I plugged them in. The setup is
> a bit ugly,but I only had to check the available PINs (ugly, ugly) and set
> up stuff once. It j
On 19 Oct 2014, at 23:09, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> (2) Most devops engineers in web/mobile companies are familiar with
>Linux. Any differences between Linux and FreeBSD in
> command-line
>utilities are not show-stoppers, but they are annoyances.
>Anything
On 30 Mar 2015, at 21:36, Kevin Zheng wrote:
>
> On 03/30/2015 03:53, k...@3msg.es wrote:
>> I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to use a FreeBSD ZFS
>> installation on commodity hardware for a NAS/SAN storage
>> implementation.
>>
>> The actual implementation is quite small itself, aroun
