Where is FreeBSD going?

[Munden, Randall J]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Glass [mailto:brett at lariat.org] 
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:53 PM
> To: Munden, Randall J; chris at randomcamel.net; 
> freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Cc: freebsd-chat at freebsd.org
> 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
> 
>