Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:46:39 +0100 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: Brandon Falk <falkman@gamozo.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Popularity Message-ID: <20100228194639.GD60770@e.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <4B8ABAB3.1060003@gamozo.org> References: <4B8ABAB3.1060003@gamozo.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:49:23PM -0600, Brandon Falk wrote: > 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? Linux was / is hyped by the media and reached a critical mass of users and developers so that it stays in everybodys head. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkuKyB8ACgkQKc512sD3afht0ACgoptnFkNZa9LcUcofaLpUqH0C k2IAoK9Avo4cK64TVS3Q0P+3GVa07h7A =HWYO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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