New FreeBSD Core Team Announced

LiquidPC writes: "The new FreeBSD core team, which will take office Monday, July 8, has been announced. You can check it out over at http://election.uk.freebsd.org."

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I know this is probably flaimbait

[fooguy]

But I say "good".

What is going on with the FreeBSD team recently? I used to be an avid FreeBSD user, but the last year or so have not been the best.

There was some serious hostility that the latest FreeBSD release was announced too early. In this community that kind of thing happens all the time. Not ideal, but not much you can do about it either.

There was a contest for a new logo, and after over 100 people participated they decided that "none of them were what we were looking for".

FreeBSD 5.0 is supposed to have some great features, but it seems to get more distant with each passing day.

There have been some issues with the last couple releases (though I haven't tried 4.6 yet) with how it's packaged. I've heard grumbling about this outside the Linux/BSD community as well.

The port collection in FreeBSD, well frankly I think it stinks. I'm always running into broken ports that should have never made it in in the first place.

Don't get me wrong, I think that the work the FreeBSD team has done is outstanding, but their behavior has been really whacky for quite a while. Maybe a new core team will do them some good.