Why do people use FreeBSD?

[tcpip4lyfe]

Why do people use FreeBSD? What is its' most common application? I woke up and I realized I know nothing about it.

[LaRoza]

Why do people use FreeBSD? What is its' most common application? I woke up and I realized I know nothing about it.

Look here: http://www.freebsd.org/

[Polygon]

ive heard that while it is very secure like linux, but it places a special emphasis of stability, aka servers.

[wersdaluv]

Why do people use FreeBSD? What is its' most common application? I woke up and I realized I know nothing about it.

Good question. In what way is BSD better than Linux? Why use it if there's Linux?

[Tomatz]

Just install it in a vm and see for yourself

[chucky chuckaluck]

Good question. In what way is BSD better than Linux? Why use it if there's Linux?

there was a great article explaining the differences called "bsd for linux users", but the site seems to down, or dead. essentially, bsd seems to be more deliberate in its development, claiming that it tests the intergration of all its parts far longer and more critically than linux does (the more hostile bsd users tend to view linux as more of a series of hacks). it's at least as different (and probably more so) from ubuntu as another distro would be.

[SunnyRabbiera]

ive heard that while it is very secure like linux, but it places a special emphasis of stability, aka servers.

Actually BSD is more secure then Linux, but for the desktop its not as good as Linux.
BSD is used for servers mainly, for servers it rocks.

[odiseo77]

I have FreeBSD installed on my machine and although I enjoy setting it up, I haven't found one reason to use it as a desktop on a regular basis, so I keep it mainly for experimental purposes (eg. to know how it works, etc). I simply prefer Linux (I'm mainly a desktop user, not a server admin).

[aktiwers]

Actually BSD is more secure then Linux, but for the desktop its not as good as Linux.
BSD is used for servers mainly, for servers it rocks.

Heh It's not many years ago a Windows user would tell me the exact same thing about Linux compared to Windows.

[Tomatz]

More to the point...

...why use GNU-hurd???