On 5/30/2012 1:26 PM, Oliver Pinter wrote:
On 5/30/12, David Chisnall<[email protected]> 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
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
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