From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 15:11:47 2009 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 4906C106564A for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saifikhan@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6108FC12 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saifikhan@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f6so1652587rvb.43 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:11:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DJULFlR+CADuon7r4fv4xST8VbpcGnM/DZTZISzRmWo=; b=mwU4zDUVbz9/e5E1KzWpeNWj/wxPiqPZ1IWQ0ICgcMfMT7uwmysQ0wPzDZo/oKvXix 8kX4PgZWq6f1DzHC8a3/NRsonnJ2j+g7s76UNMQerX7tSDF2POs9sYi6o6oAguDlsDPC mQXOBnMLnCv6QmZxW8Biv2gfzyb1aIuO0/nS4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=t9UidRGZH4FNqu1hQ0EP8dJi13mI2TdAhQ66E7OfQP9FhCbTFl7R3FKNy1vxzHAUTU rixA5ebeFAah5xhq1bHm1DS4YgbaSQcw8oX9lJTrxX5OBMnOoGiyaZdiW8Q0qkwN9S0R x8nuSBCUU8dmf9R8/UVDUejG8ozB8IRAxJPZ0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: saifikhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.86.4 with SMTP id o4mr1540815rvl.172.1235315506648; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:11:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <9ef7e7380902220154t74657d52uc9497c77672b79f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <9ef7e7380902220154t74657d52uc9497c77672b79f8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5193a903beccf258 Message-ID: <9a52b1190902220711u65e38320t97ca56547bef246d@mail.gmail.com> From: Saifi Khan To: GrimJow Espada Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hi 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, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:47 -0000 On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:54 AM, GrimJow Espada wrote: > what will happen to FreeBSD if Gentoo/BSD is already out, does it affect > freebsd popularity? i dont like gentoo or gentoo/bsd > FreeBSD popularity will be affected if the big cats (ie. networking companies) continue to ""not contribute"" back the enhancements/modifications to the kernel, networking stack, optimizations etc etc ! Gentoo userland and emerge tools are easier and elegant though not certainly superior to FreeBSD make mechanism. This is based on my personal experience as i heavily use Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD on older hardware. And offcourse, i can easily emerge pine 4.64 on Gentoo but there is no way i can do it on FreeBSD. Does anybody know where FreeBSD (in particular) (NetBSD and OpenBSD) is headed ? What is the road map ? Please don't tell me that *BSD is a nice community project (which it is) and the charter is to flip burgers (i mean code) for the next networking company to take the code and run away ! i'm very hopeful that somebody will share some insight on the road map. -- thanks Saifi. -- If you don't know where you want to go, any path can take you there --