Why is FreeBSD awesome?

A lot of people ask me why to choose FreeBSD over other distros of open source os's. And usually I am never prepared. So here we go, what are the pro's of FreeBSD.

ports- ports rock, they install like a breeze and get all there dependencies and they are pretty fucking fast too(not to install but to run)

1 Disc installation - I think FreeBSD 7 is three disks, but if you just install the base and then do the rest through ports 1 cd, for a fully functional awesome server OS that can go walls to balls with any other server OS out there

Fast- At one point we had a pentium 4 machine running 150 websites with lot's of dynamic content(huge amounts of flash, huge amounts of php)and it was plenty enough machine. At one point it was taking a long time to pull up sites and we thought it was about time to invest in a beefier machine but when we checked top, apache was still less than 20% proc and ram, the problem ended up being a bandwidth issue, sheesh

rc.conf - the best startup shit eva, rc.conf besides the unique put almost everyting in /usr is probably the thing that seperates FreeBSD, from the linux OSes


The FreeBSD Handbook - ZOMG!!1 Awesome Documentation on an Open source project, No way.

Ok so this one is a little weak, but:
Awesome Automatic partitioning. The FreeBSD partitioner, recommends a pretty awesome partition table if you want to do things the right way but don't want to spend all the time figuring out what that is.

The most awesome mascot ever - You got to love beastie.

Panther Mac OS X

Ok so I plopped a drive in the mac and started the panther install. Using the disk utility I partitioned the drive, using the Journaling MacOS filesystem and I go to install OS X. And it says it can't install it on that drive becuase the drive isn't bootable, well the apple website wasn't very helpful at all. But this guy knew what he was talking about. I just needed to restart....sheesh.

Actual error: You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. You cannot start your computer from this volume.

XandrOS eeePC

Ok so I went back to xandros on my eeePC. I wasn't getting the performance I wanted out of eeeXubuntu. I was having difficulties with wireless signals, and I think the battery life seem stunted. I don't like the lack of software for xandros however I will defiantly be looking into getting under the hood. Ok enough complaining.
Xandros just works, it's very nice and smooth. I don't know how to change the background yet which disappoints me but youtube runs like a champ(unlike on eeeXubuntu). Hmm...still not ready to take the BSD plunge yet.

FreeBSD on eeePC

I should get my eeePC today. In preparation I have looked to see if anyone has gotten FreeBSD to run on it yet. Typically I choose FreeBSD as a server, not a desktop but I might give it a whirl even though right now I am still thinking eeeXubuntu.
Blog mentioning FreeBSD and FitPC

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