Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:45:59 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith step...@missouri.edu wrote: More recently I have had to start using Linux because FreeBSD doesn't have very good laptop support. (All I ask for is a way to configure the mouse pad so that I can switch off tap to click.) See,

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-03 Thread Erich
Hi, On 30 May 2012 PM 7:20:31 David Chisnall wrote: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I use FreeBSD because it was the first Intel based unix I tried. A friend of mine suggested I try FreeBSD instead of Linux. More recently I have had to start using Linux because FreeBSD doesn't have very good laptop support. (All I ask for is a way to configure the mouse pad so that I can

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-03 Thread Erich
Hi, On 03 June 2012 PM 8:45:59 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On the other hand Ubuntu recently switched their Window manager, and I hated it on their early versions. They also offered gnome3, and it just wasn't working. So I dare not go beyond Ubuntu 10.04, and I fear the day 10.04

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, On 30 May 2012 PM 7:20:31 David Chisnall wrote: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote: On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked to the releases. This leads to situations in which a small change in a basic library will

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 2 Jun 2012, at 03:56, Erich Dollansky wrote: But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked to the releases. This leads to situations in which a small change in a basic library will result in a complete update of the installed ports. I expressed this already many

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Erich
Hi, On 02 June 2012 AM 11:39:16 David Chisnall wrote: On 2 Jun 2012, at 03:56, Erich Dollansky wrote: But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked to the releases. This leads to situations in which a small change in a basic library will result in a complete

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 2 Jun 2012, at 12:01, Erich wrote: I would even accept to get the 'release' ports tree without security fixes just to have a system which is up and running fast after I tried an upgrade like what is happening at the moment with PNG dependent ports. You have this already. Just install

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Erich
Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 12:04:26 David Chisnall wrote: On 2 Jun 2012, at 12:01, Erich wrote: I would even accept to get the 'release' ports tree without security fixes just to have a system which is up and running fast after I tried an upgrade like what is happening at the moment with

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 02.06.12 12:42, Erich Dollansky wrote: On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote: On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, Erich Dollanskyer...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked to the releases. This leads to situations in which a

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 2 Jun 2012, at 12:19, Erich wrote: Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 12:04:26 David Chisnall wrote: On 2 Jun 2012, at 12:01, Erich wrote: I would even accept to get the 'release' ports tree without security fixes just to have a system which is up and running fast after I tried an upgrade like

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Erich
Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 12:50:16 David Chisnall wrote: On 2 Jun 2012, at 12:19, Erich wrote: Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 12:04:26 David Chisnall wrote: On 2 Jun 2012, at 12:01, Erich wrote: I would even accept to get the 'release' ports tree without security fixes just to have a

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Erich
Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 2:53:48 Daniel Kalchev wrote: You don't have to use the (arguable old) 'release' ports tree. Ports get fixed/adapted for the new version usually months after release. I think we are talking here about two totally different problems. Your hint with sysinstall would

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 02.06.12 15:32, Erich wrote: I know that the ports tree is a moving target. But it stops moving during the release period. This could be used to give a fall back solution. Or do I see this really too simple? The ports tree is a moving target during release periods still, although there

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Rees
On 2 June 2012 10:42, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote: On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: But I have to mention one disadvantage. The ports are in no way linked to the

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Erich
Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 3:47:27 Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 02.06.12 15:32, Erich wrote: I know that the ports tree is a moving target. But it stops moving during the release period. This could be used to give a fall back solution. Or do I see this really too simple? The ports tree is

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Erich
Hi, On 02 June 2012 PM 10:52:48 Chris Rees wrote: On 2 June 2012 10:42, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: On 02 June 2012 AM 9:14:28 Chris Rees wrote: On Jun 2, 2012 4:04 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: But I have to mention one

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 31.05.12 18:41, Damien Fleuriot wrote: You missed the bit about 3 reboots, while these don't take 15 mins each, they're still time consuming and disruptive. 1/ reboot after installing new kernel 2/ reboot after installing new world 3/ reboot after rebuilding ports About the only time I

PFsync firewall states updates (was: Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?)

2012-06-01 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/31/12 9:51 PM, Nick Gustas wrote: On 5/31/2012 12:52 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 5/31/12 6:37 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 5/31/2012 5:41 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Furthermore, when upgrading the CARP Master firewall, we need to plan with the Project Manager a failover to the CARP

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/31/12 8:13 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 31/05/2012 16:41, Damien Fleuriot wrote: You missed the bit about 3 reboots, while these don't take 15 mins each, they're still time consuming and disruptive. 1/ reboot after installing new kernel 2/ reboot after installing new world 3/ reboot

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/1/12 8:54 AM, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 31.05.12 18:41, Damien Fleuriot wrote: You missed the bit about 3 reboots, while these don't take 15 mins each, they're still time consuming and disruptive. 1/ reboot after installing new kernel 2/ reboot after installing new world 3/ reboot

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/06/2012 09:16, Damien Fleuriot wrote: The reason I rebuild the ports last is because, unless I'm wrong, any port that's statically linked to a system library would be linked to the old library from the old world. Uh -- if it's statically linked, then the object code is copied from the

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Katinka
There's a nice discussion going on, over at Phoronix. http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?71263 For some reason, they don't seem to like us very much. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Adam Strohl
On 6/1/2012 17:19, Katinka wrote: There's a nice discussion going on, over at Phoronix. http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?71263 For some reason, they don't seem to like us very much. Lots of the comments remind me about Linux vs. Windows in the late 90s, and taken with a grain of

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Jason Leschnik
I think this iterates my point on the Forums.. To gain critical mass FreeBSD needs to start showing some benchmarks and numbers to back up the advocacy claims. I think this will also give the dev team technical direction to get back into grind of tweaking for performance and not just features. I

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Adam Strohl
On 6/1/2012 18:03, Jason Leschnik wrote: I may be totally incorrect with my above ideas, but it's what i would like to see from FreeBSD *again*... This is the reason in the first place most people used FreeBSD, stability/scalability/performance are the hallmarks of FreeBSD. If we have these hard

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 01.06.12 13:19, Katinka wrote: There's a nice discussion going on, over at Phoronix. http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?71263 For some reason, they don't seem to like us very much. Do we really care? The number of really bright people, or even people who are able to reasonably

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Thomas Steen Rasmussen
On 01-06-2012 13:39, Daniel Kalchev wrote: Instead, lead by example. Showcase. Demonstrate how superior FreeBSD is because the people who keep it going are not interested to be the Jack of All Trades (and master of none). Showcase implementations that are hard to do with any other OS. This.

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Fritz Wuehler
There's a nice discussion going on, over at Phoronix. http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?71263 For some reason, they don't seem to like us very much. ALL of the PC performance weenies run Windows. They're totally stupid when it comes to software and all they care about is the Windows

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 30 May 2012 PM 7:20:31 David Chisnall wrote: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread David Chisnall
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 Everyone,

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Prabhpal -Mailing-List
On 5/30/12 6:52 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Chisnallthera...@freebsd.orgwrote: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel Kalchev
1) Been with BSD/OS since it's inception. Great OS and good example to follow. But BSD/OS was eventually killed and FreeBSD sort of inherited it's legacy. Both follow the simplicity and good architecture models, with FreeBSD improving on modularity. 2) The BSD license. Contrary to popular

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Jerome Herman
On Wed, 30 May 2012 19:20:31 +0100, David Chisnall thera...@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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Lars Engels
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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Reko Turja
-Original Message- From: Daniel Kalchev Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:01 PM 2) The BSD license. Contrary to popular belief, it has brought a lot of high quality development to FreeBSD. The salient point is that BSD license (and alike licenses)seem to bring in more talented people

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Holger Kipp
Hi, Am 31.05.2012 um 12:24 schrieb Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Frank Razenberg
In no specific order, for me they are: - Rock solid stability, not only in base-system but also in ports. - The completeness of the ports system and helpfulness of the maintainers. - ZFS Frank On 5/31/2012 12:32 PM, Holger Kipp wrote: Hi, Am 31.05.2012 um 12:24 schrieb Lars

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Jason Leschnik
I've only been using FreeBSD for about ~2 years, the thing i really like about FreeBSD is the stability of the configuration system. Placement of configuration files and startup scripts make life easier in daily administration. The things i'm using FreeBSD for? # Gateway Router # Squid Proxy

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 31 May 2012, at 12:21, Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net wrote: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Claus Guttesen
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 As a matter of fact, too often, that's te problem. We have 800 servers and I can't argue that debian's

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Jason Leschnik
A freebsd-update + portsnap + portupgrade is really quick... I even wrote this little script to check for pkg_updating info: http://leschnik.me/blog/?p=79 Thanks. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 31 May 2012, at 12:21, Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/31/2012 2:09 PM, Jason Leschnik wrote: A freebsd-update + portsnap + portupgrade is really quick... ah, ok! I even wrote this little script to check for pkg_updating info: http://leschnik.me/blog/?p=79 Note that if you have many out of date ports this script can take a while to

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Jason Leschnik
a while isn't an S.I. unit, so it actually might be pretty quick :P On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com wrote: On 5/31/2012 2:09 PM, Jason Leschnik wrote: A freebsd-update + portsnap + portupgrade is really quick... ah, ok! I even wrote this little script to

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/31/12 12:32 PM, Holger Kipp wrote: Hi, Am 31.05.2012 um 12:24 schrieb Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net: 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,

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Vitaly Magerya
David Chisnall wrote: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WhyUseFreeBSD Feedback welcome! Quote: The RCng system that reads this file [rc.conf] understands dependencies between services and so can automatically launch them in parallel [...] Can it? There have been patches in the lists, was one of

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/31/12 1:20 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote: 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 As a matter of fact, too often, that's te problem. We have 800

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Jim Ohlstein
On 5/30/12 2:20 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/31/12 4:01 PM, Jim Ohlstein wrote: To add others, in no particular order: Ease of upgrade. While some have noted that binary upgrades are easier on Debian, it's far and away superior, IMMHO, to have a locally compiled system. Many Linux distros have no upgrade path short of a wipe and

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Adam Strohl
On 5/31/2012 21:22, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 5/31/12 4:01 PM, Jim Ohlstein wrote: To add others, in no particular order: Ease of upgrade. While some have noted that binary upgrades are easier on Debian, it's far and away superior, IMMHO, to have a locally compiled system. Many Linux distros

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/31/12 4:30 PM, Adam Strohl wrote: On 5/31/2012 21:22, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 5/31/12 4:01 PM, Jim Ohlstein wrote: To add others, in no particular order: Ease of upgrade. While some have noted that binary upgrades are easier on Debian, it's far and away superior, IMMHO, to have a

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Gary Palmer
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 04:22:37PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 5/31/12 4:01 PM, Jim Ohlstein wrote: To add others, in no particular order: Ease of upgrade. While some have noted that binary upgrades are easier on Debian, it's far and away superior, IMMHO, to have a locally compiled

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Adam Strohl
On 5/31/2012 21:47, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Regarding packages, I've never really explored it, would you detail a bit ? Well, I really mean the resulting pkg info from a port. A good example is PHP, sometimes you have to say everyone out of the pool because of an upgrade: cd /var/db/pkg

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Jim Ohlstein
On 5/31/12 10:22 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 5/31/12 4:01 PM, Jim Ohlstein wrote: To add others, in no particular order: Ease of upgrade. While some have noted that binary upgrades are easier on Debian, it's far and away superior, IMMHO, to have a locally compiled system. Many Linux

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 31 May 2012 09:30:31 -0500, Adam Strohl adams-free...@ateamsystems.com wrote: This brings up another point: Repair is always possible with FreeBSD. Quick tip for you guys -- create your own mtree file for /usr/local, /usr/home, and /var via cron nightly. With that data and the

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Oliver Fromme
David Chisnall wrote: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/31/12 5:13 PM, Jim Ohlstein wrote: On 5/31/12 10:22 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 5/31/12 4:01 PM, Jim Ohlstein wrote: To add others, in no particular order: Ease of upgrade. While some have noted that binary upgrades are easier on Debian, it's far and away superior, IMMHO, to have a

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Flemming Jacobsen
Damien Fleuriot wrote: You missed the bit about 3 reboots, while these don't take 15 mins each, they're still time consuming and disruptive. 1/ reboot after installing new kernel 2/ reboot after installing new world 3/ reboot after rebuilding ports Or ... use sysbuild

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/31/2012 5:41 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Furthermore, when upgrading the CARP Master firewall, we need to plan with the Project Manager a failover to the CARP Backup firewall. Yes, I know about pfsync, yes, we use it, no, it doesn't *instantly* sync sessions for PF. A bit offtopic on this

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
On 05/30/12 20:20, 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/31/12 6:37 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 5/31/2012 5:41 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Furthermore, when upgrading the CARP Master firewall, we need to plan with the Project Manager a failover to the CARP Backup firewall. Yes, I know about pfsync, yes, we use it, no, it doesn't *instantly*

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/05/2012 16:41, Damien Fleuriot wrote: You missed the bit about 3 reboots, while these don't take 15 mins each, they're still time consuming and disruptive. 1/ reboot after installing new kernel 2/ reboot after installing new world 3/ reboot after rebuilding ports If you rebuilt the

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Karl Dunn
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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Nick Gustas
On 5/31/2012 12:52 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 5/31/12 6:37 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 5/31/2012 5:41 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Furthermore, when upgrading the CARP Master firewall, we need to plan with the Project Manager a failover to the CARP Backup firewall. Yes, I know about

Solaris features in FreeBSD (was: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?)

2012-05-31 Thread Chris Nehren
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 17:20:04 +0200 , Oliver Fromme wrote: But there's one thing that hasn't been mentioned so far, I think: jails. The jails feature was the most important reason why one of our largest customers chose FreeBSD for its server farm instead of Linux. I also use this feature

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Luiz Eduardo Roncato Cordeiro
Because I really like it! ;-) I've been using FreeBSD since the RELEASE-1.0(.5)?, as far as I remember... But, the first BSD I had installed was a 386BSD, on a old 386 computer. Yeah! Version 0.0 or 0.1... God! I'm getting old! Cordeiro Em quarta-feira, 30 de maio de 2012, às 19:20:31,

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 5/31/12 1:20 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Dave Hayes
Flemming Jacobsen f...@batmule.dk writes: Damien Fleuriot wrote: You missed the bit about 3 reboots, while these don't take 15 mins each, they're still time consuming and disruptive. 1/ reboot after installing new kernel 2/ reboot after installing new world 3/ reboot after rebuilding ports

Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread David Chisnall
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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Chisnall thera...@freebsd.orgwrote: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Nehren
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 19:20:31 +0100 , David Chisnall wrote: Hi Everyone, This is off-topic, ... and not wrapped at 80 characters. 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Vitaly Magerya
David Chisnall thera...@freebsd.org wrote: If you had to list the three things you most like about FreeBSD, which would you pick? 1. Large number of ports, including obscure programs other package system don't have. 2. Relatively straightforward system configuration (i.e. rc.conf), as opposed

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Johan Hendriks
David Chisnall schreef: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Josh Beard
On 05/30/2012 12:20 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Adam Strohl
On 5/31/2012 1:20, David Chisnall wrote: 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:59:01 -0500, Chris Nehren apeiron+freebsd-sta...@isuckatdomains.net wrote: 4. Everything feels right and makes sense on a very deep level for me, in a way that never happened with the other Unix and Unix alike OSs I've used. Bingo. For me: 1) Integration. The OS is

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Oliver Pinter
On 5/30/12, David Chisnall thera...@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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 30 May 2012 19:20, David Chisnall thera...@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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Wed, 30 May 2012 19:20:31 +0100 David Chisnall thera...@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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Steven Hartland
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:20 PM Subject: Why Are You Using FreeBSD? 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Jakub Lach
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Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Jakub Lach
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Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 30 May 2012, David Chisnall wrote: Hi Everyone, I came to FreeBSD nearly 20 years ago because it had text-mode (aka command line, console, etc.) apps and I wanted to avoid GUIs for applications that are not essentially graphic in nature. The ability to switch for applications

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Brian
On 5/30/2012 11:20 AM, 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

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 07:20:31PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: 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? 1) Using it doesn't require changing me (well, at least change is gradual and

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Brian
On 5/30/2012 1:26 PM, Oliver Pinter wrote: On 5/30/12, David Chisnallthera...@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