[harrytuttle]

Well the main things for me are

1. feels closer to "old fashioned non-Canonical'ed UNIX" which I was brought up on.

2. Way less politics due to license.

3. Less crazy forking and wheel reinventing (basically everything Ubuntu isn't).

4. It has orders of magnitude better documentation

5. pkgng is actually really nice

6. separation of core OS vs ports/packages so easy to stage updates compared to catch all Linux distros.

7. pf is miles better than iptables

8. ZFS.

9. I have a Sun Ultra 30 sitting in my cupboard which Linux doens't like.

10. Has valgrind that works properly unlike the other BSD's.

That's about it but it's enough.

My use cases are: personal use, professional use (devops), professional use (production).

[masklinn]

It also has dtrace, including kernel support enabled by default.

[harrytuttle]

Forgot about dtrace - good point!

So much goodness!