Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022 22:25:32 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: User questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using a FreeBSD desktop was somehting about dog food Message-ID: <20220327222532.da31d267c343b02207c5c991@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20220327102810.00000e6d@seibercom.net> References: <38b7f44-6d54-fec6-c1f0-d3609d301687@safeport.com> <20220327081341.ef6a08004fb6986edf1b941e@sohara.org> <CAOgwaMsCgKrepam6v42Nk1M%2BnfWqk-yRWeqmKMMu9McsKfeVfQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAM8r67Bn-SEOwaw4V3hWnYkYv27YuvpufVCygnOJA4C_ioWZvg@mail.gmail.com> <20220327102810.00000e6d@seibercom.net>
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2022 10:28:10 -0400 Jerry Seibert <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > As I see it, FreeBSD will be relegated to the back of the pack for home > use. I do not know a single business, at least a fortune 500, or any > municipality that uses FreeBSD for their office PCs. If FreeBSD wants > to stay relevant in the home market, they need to up their game and The "home market" has *never* been the focus of FreeBSD and FreeBSD has been falling behind in it since around 1993. We've been being told that FreeBSD is dead and been supplanted by Linux since around 1997. Strangely the dying FreeBSD project seems to have more resources and more developers than it did when it was the powerhouse behind Yahoo!, Hotmail, Walnut Creek CDROM et al. FreeBSD makes fine servers and workstations, and has superb long term maintainability. To me these things are more important than having support for the latest undocumented hardware. Others have different needs and values and make different choices. What would be the point of making FreeBSD indistinguishable from Linux or MacOS or Windows or Z/OS or ... Far better that FreeBSD be what it is and keep on doing what it does best. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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