What is your primary use of FreeBSD? (poll)

[sko]

Professional - all our infrastructure runs on a mix of FreeBSD (storage servers, lots of jails, gateways/routers, mail- and webservers), illumos (smartOS for VMs and lots of zones) and OpenBSD (firewalls/gateways/routers and mailservers). Our client systems are also being migrated to FreeBSD in the form of TrueOS, which is great for automated deployment of a fully-fledged OS with a DE.


Although, all of this essentially came out of my personal interests/hobby and the fact that I'm a one-man-show for all our IT. So I choose whatever fits the task and is the easiest to manage/automate for me - which after a while completely ruled out Linux especially since "something" happened...
My home Network/Lab now runs a mix of FreeBSD (storage; jails for all network services) and OpenBSD (Firewall/Gateway/VPN). I'm also running an external server and some DigitalOcean Droplets with FreeBSD for my small business as well as for my personal mailserver or other services.
A few weeks ago a Sun T1000 found its way into my rack which will run illumos/Tribblix and OpenBSD in logical domains as soon as its noise-level is reduced to more bearable levels I'll intend to use this system mostly for getting a bit more in-depth knowledge with both OSes and eventually run some gitlab-runners for smaller build jobs on it if I get that to work (LX-zones maybe...)

Putting bunch of data used in academic research on the FreeBSD file server in a university setting is no different than putting porn pictures to run XXX related business.

"And over here we have a huge file-server for our students, mostly filled with pictures for uhm.. 'research'..."

 

[fernandel]

I was long time in the genetics research and I use some apps DNA,RNA, protein related for "real work", the same as Python (science). We have many Lixux and OS X at work and minority was Windows.
Now I am using FreeBSD as desktop (after DOS, OS2, Linux) for playing with graphics (GIMP, Blender) and all the timI star WM with startx.
Am I a hobbyist? I think so...

 

[Deleted member 54719]

The results of this question were not surprising to me. I cannot call it a poll because it only allowed one question. A few folks read too much into it, which could invalidate them as part of the statistical sample. I also asked that folks NOT post comments about it in the discussion, as that could further skew the results. really the sample size isn't large enough get numbers with a high confidence interval, but it does seem to indicate the "hobbiist" nature of the project.

 

[rigoletto@]

Most professional/enterprise users (probably the vast majority) are on IRC and mail lists, not in here.