Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:14:09 +0200 From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using a FreeBSD desktop was somehting about dog food Message-ID: <46aec23d-d454-bb15-e482-d2c470ad0a89@tinka.africa> In-Reply-To: <20220327222532.da31d267c343b02207c5c991@sohara.org> 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> <20220327222532.da31d267c343b02207c5c991@sohara.org>
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On 3/27/22 23:25, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > 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. +1. Mark.
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