From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Dec 10 20:51:26 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AFB5E9BCBA for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:51:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-cmomta01.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.228]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43BD3300E for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:51:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from raspberrypi.bildanet.com ([65.186.81.207]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id O8ZAeAZymdX1SO8ZCeH8do; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:51:18 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.143] by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1eO8Z9-0008NU-Rz for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:51:15 +0000 Subject: Re: CUDA under FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <34331.107.77.207.211.1512384505.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <0545699d-9df7-ced2-4990-27e3ecb8e531@ShaneWare.Biz> <5A2D8FA7.2030401@gmail.com> <20171210202733.82d271c7b45a85f28b5ff46c@sohara.org> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <5c0045ec-099d-567e-a339-44b69a7fc302@columbus.rr.com> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:51:10 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171210202733.82d271c7b45a85f28b5ff46c@sohara.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfBeQqjJ1qgN+NQ74w8qGCtdz288PnNMxlM5EKUjkDHX9pbL6BLNSnozPOfVlIgW1czRbxGjFCM1/O/1H/Ub6YaA4QWPOaD4ctTetlBEVsSYXaRrOcCnx mnHdepOlrT+bVW/TK5wtC/RMiUy3yWW4033F3t08xbksM6/aETG/LmZARbFLFzOOJLWX+B0mq5xSmyyOc/wlCd4aYgWTBwlLp3c= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:51:26 -0000 On 12/10/2017 3:27 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:48:55 -0700 > JD wrote: > >> It seems (to me) that fbsd might be dropped altogether, and developers >> will not waste their time and talent on an OS that has a very very small >> installed base. > People have been saying things like that about FreeBSD for the last > twenty years, it's still going strong. > > Developers spend time on FreeBSD because they want FreeBSD, they > don't really care how many other people want it as well so long as there > are enough people interested in developing it to keep it going and > improving. Except for the fact that the devs are always complaining about not having enough people to do the work.  That is why the posts almost always say patches are welcome or something simular. > Companies like nVidia do care about market share, they know that if > they provide Linux support it will make a noticeable difference to their > sales but FreeBSD support probably won't. > > It seems very likely (but impossible to tell for sure) that the > installed base of FreeBSD is larger today than it was when ftp.cdrom.com > held the record for the busiest ftp site a couple of decades ago. However > the installed base of Linux is far larger than it was then (larger than the > installed base of any other OS if you include Android as a flavour of > Linux). >