Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:08:47 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchasNetBSD!!! Message-ID: <1636493377.20050210140847@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEFHFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <108284711.20050210103325@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEFHFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > This depends on your definition of survival. > > As long as FreeBSD runs on some hardware, and people still use it, > it's surviving. No doubt, but to some extent the enthusiasm of the volunteers that work on the OS is a function of how many people they know to be using the software. > The only real issue I see to FreeBSD's survival that requires > corporate attention is device drivers for new hardware. And this is an > issue that harms all operating systems even Windows. There are just as > many older versions of Windows being made unrunnable by new hardware > that lacks drivers for it, as BSD versions. Don't hardware manufacturers publish specs detailed enough to allow third parties to write drivers? > but beyond this, the computer industry itself is in a real growth > slump anyway. The 8080 IBM PCjr architecture is still at the core > of new PC hardware. What growth we are seeing is the increasing > commoditization of hardware. Unfortunately this is stunting the > introduction of newer and possibly better ways to build a computer, > all it does is just make the hardware cheaper and cheaper, and > less and less innovative. (not that I'm complaining about the > cheaper part, of course) I don't expect this to change. Computers are increasingly like washing machines or cars. Don't expect any huge innovations in the near future. Linux is a great case in point. What a pity that when people finally looked at something like UNIX, it turned out to not be UNIX at all, but someone cooked up in a schoolkid's garage. A perfect example of a product sold on hype alone, even though technically superior solutions already existed (but had no hype behind them). -- Anthony
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