i use it mainly as a soho nas. the things i like about it are
1) userland and kernel owned by the same group. this lends consistency to the experience, that is absent in linux, where it's clear that it's an amalgamation of many different tools.
2) (largely) one way of doing things
3) package management system (pkg-ng) that is a cross between gentoo portage and debian apt-get
5) configuration is very simple (mostly driven from rc.conf)
6) excellent full-disk encryption support (geli)
driver support always lags a bit behind linux, on the other hand the drivers that do exist i'm confident are stable. i make sure to buy hardware which i know is supported.
So true. In my day job, I am a Windows admin, and I continue to be surprised that FreeBSD (the other BSD systems, too) comes with such good documentation while Microsoft is not ashamed to charge its customers thousands of bucks for software that comes without a ing manual...
1) userland and kernel owned by the same group. this lends consistency to the experience, that is absent in linux, where it's clear that it's an amalgamation of many different tools.
2) (largely) one way of doing things
3) package management system (pkg-ng) that is a cross between gentoo portage and debian apt-get
4) extremely good documentation for an open source project (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/)
5) configuration is very simple (mostly driven from rc.conf)
6) excellent full-disk encryption support (geli)
driver support always lags a bit behind linux, on the other hand the drivers that do exist i'm confident are stable. i make sure to buy hardware which i know is supported.