Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:53:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? Message-ID: <20040110035353.99600.qmail@web13425.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi; I might be in the minority here, but I happen to think FreeBSD is doing well and FreeBSD 5.x is headed in the right direction! If you look at the ports tree you will notice we are providing more packages than any other BSD or Linux distribution, and the quality of each and every port is outstanding. The features in 5.x are promising and the OS is surely becoming more "modern" so I wouldn't say we are going backwards at all. DragonFly is offering some interesting features, but some FreeBSD features, in particular KSE and trustedBSD, are not something I would ignore, so I think most of us will remain faithful to FreeBSD but we will keep an eye to see what can be ported. This doesn't mean FreeBSD is perfect. In fact it's rather disappointing that no one in FreeBSD is protecting the stack (which the other BSDs have already done), and that making FreeBSD comply with POSIX is taking so long, but guys.... this IS a voluntary effort, and just like in any project if no one does it, it won't happen! If moving to subversion/bugzilla helps us get the changes faster then we should do it but ultimately the root of this thread, as I see it, is that we are just failing to recognize that FreeBSD has REALLY good people behind it and that having so many talented people can sometimes be a problem. just my random thoughts, Pedro. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
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