Future of FreeBSD

From: Atte Peltomaki (koston_at_iki.fi)
Date: 04/09/04

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To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org

    Hello FreeBSD users and developers!

    As an active FreeBSD user, I'm ever so interested about the future
    plans of FreeBSD and direction of developement. Many of the features
    that 5.x taunts are very impressive. But as of late I have been
    increasingly worried about the direction (or, lack of direction) things
    have been going.

    Departure of Jordan and Greg. Jordan said it's not fun anymore. Is the
    strive for new features driving developers past their limits, or has jkh
    simply gotten old? Also kicking out Dillon, a very talented and active
    programmer, didn't look good at all, especially when it went down
    completely without any explanations to userbase.

    Stability of 5.x: from my point of view, the 5.x series, although
    including a lot of very fancy work in many areas, is nowhere near the
    reliability you'd expect from a stable FreeBSD release. Originally 5.x
    was due to go stable in the beginning of summer, are there any new plans
    made yet?

    Feature-wise: things simply don't seem quite ready. ACPI breaks every
    other box, ULE is still not SMP aware, Giant is far from being
    completely removed and so on. Yet, all these features have been
    presented in the media long ago, giving the impression they would be
    ready (soon).

    Now, I'm not trying to pick a fight with anyone. I just want to talk
    about things with their real names. And when things are going bad,
    things are going bad and calling *** on one another ain't gonna make it
    one bit better. I would dearly like to hear an honest opinion from
    someone who feels he knows what he's talking about, against my feeble
    knowledge over much anything. And I would really like to see FreeBSD get
    a grip again, put the media behind it, see what's real and attainable
    and go an' do it, and as a user I will do what I can to assist.

    Cincerely,

    Atte Peltomäki
    http://kameli.org
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