From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 04:59:08 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78B8AFB0 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 04:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (relay4-d.mail.gandi.net [IPv6:2001:4b98:c:538::196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33C452EFE for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 04:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mfilter7-d.gandi.net (mfilter7-d.gandi.net [217.70.178.136]) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B9D172067 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 06:59:05 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mfilter7-d.gandi.net Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]) by mfilter7-d.gandi.net (mfilter7-d.gandi.net [10.0.15.180]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qVPuXh820yCB for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 06:59:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Originating-IP: 120.60.151.189 Received: from localhost (triband-mum-120.60.151.189.mtnl.net.in [120.60.151.189]) (Authenticated sender: mayuresh@kathe.in) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7A62717207C for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 06:59:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:29:01 +0530 From: Mayuresh Kathe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: it feels good to be back ... Message-ID: <20140621045900.GA994@h61.kathe.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 04:59:08 -0000 hello, i am finally back in freebsd land, and it feels good. after my good experiences with freebsd (especially the mailing lists), i figured, it would be unwise to not give the other bsd systems a look. so, i went off and landed in netbsd land, and golly, it was a good experience, the community is quite friendly and the system feels quite zippy, but after using it a while, i felt uncomfortable, don't know what exactly, but, it just didn't feel like home. i then moved over (back) to openbsd land, and golly, are they still grumpy out there! but their system has been improved to a very high degree, much better than what i tried out a year back, but again, it just didn't feel quite like home. so i came back to freebsd, and all seems well. the system is well engineered, and takes into consideration users needs from a very pragmatic perspective, and the best part is the fact that it's almost a fully non-gnu licensed system. :) so, thanks to the freebsd team and it's user community, for giving me a reason to continue with unix (yeah, i was contemplating windows). best, ~mayuresh