Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

[Brian]

On 5/30/2012 1:26 PM, Oliver Pinter wrote:
> 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):
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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?
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> yes
Seconding David above, #7 is a big deal. I heard John "Maddog" Hall 
speak in person a few years back in San Diego re GPL3 and just walked 
out of there thinking scratching my head.

Brian