Where is FreeBSD going?

[Don Lewis]

On  5 Jan, Brett Glass wrote:

> 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.

The worst breakage of 4-STABLE in recent memory was the PAE commit,
which I got the impression was driven by end-user demand.  Probably
folks who had expensive systems with > 4GB of RAM who wanted to be able
to run 4-STABLE production systems and make use of all that RAM right
now and not wait for 5.x to become production-worthy.