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FreeBSD Status Report for 2005 Q2
koinu writes "FreeBSD Status Report for the second quarter 2005 has been published by Scott Long. It gives a more precise description of what is being done on the 18 Summer Of Code projects." From the post: "The Google Summer of Code project has also generated quite a bit of
excitement. FreeBSD has been granted 18 funded mentorship spots, the
fourth most of all of participating organizations. Projects being
worked on range from UFS Journalling to porting the new BSDInstaller
to redesigning the venerable www.FreeBSD.org website."
Let's see; recently thigns were "going strong" for netbsd so much they had to beg for donations. OpenBSD is still feeling the fallout from the OSS community over Theo's bombastic remarks in Forbes and FreeBSD has just announced that they are abandoning the 5.x series (presumably in embarassment).
In contrast, HP joins the ranks of luminaries such as Yahoo and IBM as members of the Linux community, drawn by both the quality of enterprise level support as well as the technicnological edge which Linux continues to display over the fragmented BSD camp (which has yet to come up with a fully functional SMP implementation).
As far as capabilities go; BSD is not capable of journalling, SMP OR of maintaining any sort of prescence in the corporate IT infrastructure.
Maybe because it's dying? Seems likely.