From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 28 19:16:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3FB106564A for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:16:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from falkman@gamozo.org) Received: from epicblunt.blendfresh.net (epicblunt.blendfresh.net [97.107.136.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5518FC0C for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.146] (75-134-26-25.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com [75.134.26.25]) (authenticated bits=0) by epicblunt.blendfresh.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o1SInlRt021215 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:49:49 -0600 Message-ID: <4B8ABAB3.1060003@gamozo.org> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:49:23 -0600 From: Brandon Falk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20100203) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD Popularity X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:16:52 -0000 Hello there FreeBSD people, Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA and ATI 64-bit drivers) is really starting to bother me. I guess I would like to have a bit of a discussion of what could be improved to increase the popularity of FreeBSD, as honestly I can do almost everything in FreeBSD that I can in Linux, so why can't FreeBSD thrive as much as Linux. Is it that it is harder to install/configure? Any opinions/ideas on this situation? -Brandon Falk