From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 30 10:44:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A6914F66 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:44:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01910; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:53:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd001823; Tue Mar 30 12:53:01 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA16162; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:44:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199903301844.LAA16162@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Swan song To: marcus@miami.edu (Joe "Marcus" Clarke) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:44:12 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dg@root.com, bpechter@shell.monmouth.com, brett@lariat.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" at Mar 26, 99 10:05:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >I hate to say this, but Linux has won for the time being. > > >I'm considering a switch to NetBSD or Linux here at home because of > > >a number of problems with the direction FreeBSD has taken with the 3.x > > >and 4.x releases. > > > > What you please elaborate? What problems do you have with the direction > > we're going? > > Personally, I like the way FreeBSD is going. They have a -stable, and a > -current tree, they are committed to timely releases, bug fixes, new > features keeping with industry releases, and user input on release > schedules and feature deployment. I've actually converted three Linux > users in the past week because of FreeBSD's improved stability, better > software install model, and better driver support. This is who FreeBSD *is*; it has nothing whatsoever to do with where it's going. Where you are going has to do with your 1, 2, 5, and 10 year plans. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message