> -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Glass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:53 PM > To: Munden, Randall J; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Where is FreeBSD going? > > > At 12:40 PM 1/5/2004, Munden, Randall J wrote: > > >Right. What concerns me most is the rise in the incidence of trolls > >all trolling about the same subject or along the same vein. Would > >someone please explain what is going on? As a production > user of fBSD > >this is troubling. > > It's probably one of the Slashdot "BSD is dead" trolls. The > fact is, though, that there ARE things about FreeBSD that > could stand improvement. These days, when I build a box, I am > torn between using FreeBSD 5.x -- which is not ready for > prime time but is at least being worked on actively -- and > using 4.9, which isn't as stable as it should be because the > developers broke the cardinal rule of making radical changes > to -STABLE. This *is* a real issue for those of us who are admins.
I think this is what is on my mind these days. I'm preparing to load up some machines for production soon (I've already put it off for too long waiting for 5-STABLE) and I don't like what I'm seeing -- with both the mud slinging here and the performance in the lab (mostly anecdotal). Perhaps I've just become spoiled by each new -RELEASE being ten times better than the previous one or perhaps I'm just becoming a bit neurotic with age but I'm not seeing the progression of improvement I've come to expect (or perhaps only imagined?). Don't misinterpret the above, I <3 fBSD and I'll not soon replace it with anything else. But I do like to look ahead to see what's coming. > > FreeBSD also keeps falling farther and farther behind Linux > in the area of advocacy (and, hence, corporate adoption). > Again, this is a governance > issue. Many of the developers actually have an antipathy > toward advocacy, > since they dislike answering newbie FAQs and don't want too > many people to adopt the OS for fear that it'll overcrowd > their "sandbox." So, some of the criticism is actually valid. I noticed it too but I just chalked it up to being crazy busy and not paying much attention. > > --Brett > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
