Why use FreeBSD?
- The manpages. Unix-like systems use the
man
program for documentation. FreeBSD (and other BSDs) include the
documentation as a part of the distribution, and include manpages
for device drivers and kernel subsystems as well as the usual
utilities and library APIs.
For example, there is a manpage
for the Atheros wifi driver, which lists products that are
supported by the device driver.
- The ports collection. Virtually any third party software can
be built and installed using the ports collection.
rc.conf. Most configuration of the system is
done with the /etc/rc.conf file. Everything from
which services should be started to how the network should be
configured is in one text file, with a very convenient template:
/etc/defaults/rc.conf.