Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

[Oliver Pinter]

On 5/30/12, David Chisnall <theraven at freebsd.org> 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?

Hi!

Likes (sorry, not only 3 item):
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1) FreeBSD is NOT Linux = FreeBSD is stable, reliable, simple (there
are no automated brainfucks... like udev, hal and dbus in base system)
2) has a clean source, and FreeBSD is maintainable: if there are a
working driver in N+2 version, I have a much bigger chance, that
working in N too
3) is highly configurable (~ 1) ), I like rc.conf and sysctl (linux's
procfs and sysfs is a chaos ...)
4) FreeBSD has a ports system, that contained KDE3
5) well documented
6) not fragmented as Linux, (relation to many distro, that not have idea/goal)
7) not GPL
8) FreeBSD is a complete system, and not just a kernel + random thing
from everywhere, and not hackish

Are they the same as when you first started using it?
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yes

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