From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 17 12:57:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1AB1065672 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:57:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cbergstrom@pathscale.com) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB7FB8FC14 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:57:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg11 with SMTP id 11so3106909pvg.13 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.40.66 with SMTP id v2mr3203845pbk.370.1310907421352; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (ppp-58-8-249-12.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.249.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z6sm1874148pbc.14.2011.07.17.05.56.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E22DD7E.1070404@pathscale.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:02:54 +0700 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22C=2E_Bergstr=F6m=22?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20101031 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110717071059.25971662@scorpio> <4E22D8DA.4030001@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <4E22D8DA.4030001@nagual.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:57:02 -0000 On 07/17/11 07:43 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Op 17-7-2011 14:17 schreef Subbsd: >> community decreases. It is a pity that many developers of FreeBSD have >> left in Apple, the small part works over {NET,OPEN,DRAGONFLY}.BSD but >> as a whole it already absolutely small small groups of people. > And do you feel this will be the end of FreeBSD? I doubt that *BSD will *end*, but at which point does lack of usage make an OS irrelevant? 1) Is it used in production? If so does it serve a critical role? 2) What commercial support options are available? (Also what popular commercial/proprietary software are available ) 3) How well is it keeping pace with existing sw and hw technologies? 4) How focused and productive is the development community? I have some personal views on the above, but I consider *BSD severely lacking in a few areas. (No I can't personally help and only kick these questions off from the sidelines) Software typically exists to solve a problem. What problem is *BSD trying to solve? If something serves a purpose then there should be no denying it's future relevance.