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The Case for FreeBSD
essdodson writes "Scott Long of FreeBSD release engineering team describes some of the finer points where FreeBSD continues to innovate and display its mature development environment. Items such as netgraph, geom and incredible desktop support by way of Gnome and KDE." From the post: "While I strongly applaud the
accomplishments of the NetBSD team and happily agree that NetBSD 2.0 is
a strong step forward for them, I take a bit of exception to many of
their claims and much of their criticisms of FreeBSD."
...FreeBSD is getting a new logo (well, 0 submissions to date, but still !
Is it just me or do BSD people dole out more insults to each other than the Linux community does to them?
Not only that, but most of the jokes I hear from Linux people are often in jest, and not serious in any manner.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
What really sets FreeBSD apart is its robust death cycle. No other BSD at any price dies so reliably and consistently, with painless migration between deaths. It's clear that the FreeBSD development team has death as its highest priority and the result is easy to see in the product.
this is a really nice case for BSD!
I guess you didn't followed the excellent FreeBSD handbook?
Brian: Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?
Reg: Fuck off! We're the People's Front of Judea
I'm always struck by the similarity.
Don't worry about it. The people who where trying to make it political went off and created their own fork with a bug for a mascot :-)
That's the only political brouhaha I can think of recently, and to be fair, it's largely been confined to advocates and not the developers.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!