Re: Using a FreeBSD desktop was somehting about dog food

On Sun, 27 Mar 2022 14:18:06 +0200, Tomasz CEDRO stated:
>On Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 11:26 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>
>> This means that  trouble is not coming from "Open Source" but from
>> "Management of Use of Open Source "  .
>>
>>
>> Over the years , without relentlessly I am mentioning this difficulty
>> point .
>> It seems that there is no hope to reach   a solution to this problem
>> . I do not know why .
>>
>
>The root cause of this are ideologies. "change is good". "the only
>constant is change". "software development is about enforcing vision".
>This is mostly thanks to Microsoft. Fancy Linux "bleeding edge"
>followed. Then big tech like Google with Android and Smartphones did
>the same what Microsoft did with Windows and PC. Then Samsung
>followed. Then Apple followed. Now it's considered standard. Building
>something without solid fundaments plus constant change of the
>fundaments.
>
>Look at JavaScript and try to do anything with that mess, something
>fundamentally flawed but extremely available and popular, not to
>mention malware showing up more and more recently in various
>dependencies that are totally out of control.
>
>This mess impacts BSD world but it is not welcome here and I hope it
>never will. This is why I love BSD. More and more people can see that
>too :-)
>
>--
>CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info

"Publish or perish " is an aphorism describing the pressure to publish
academic work to succeed in an academic career. A parallel can be drawn
between that analogy and the need for software and operating system
developers to innovate or wither on the vine. At the very least, they
need to stay competitive, which means they must keep current.

FreeBSD never innovates and rarely stays even remotely current. They
are consistently behind other operating systems regarding innovation
and staying current with modern devices, i.e., the  555-BEOY:
Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Network and IO Card. {See:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237666}

FreeBSD may be fine for commercial use in servers, but it is falling
seriously behind in the consumer market. The public, in general, is not
interested in using an OS that fails to run their favorite or
industry-standard software. Nor are they relishing the opportunity to
be held hostage to a system that will not accommodate modern hardware
devices. Even an ordinary, everyday item such as a printer driver can
be an exercise in futility with FreeBSD. Getting a current driver with
full printer support is difficult at best in way too many instances. I
contacted Brother USA a few years ago inquiring about a driver for a
high-end laser printer I had purchased. They had drivers for several
*nix products, but none for FreeBSD. The engineer I spoke to ran Linux
on his home PC and fully felt my pain. He explained that FreeBSD was
just not mature enough to invest the money and time required to produce
a full line of drivers.

As I see it, FreeBSD will be relegated to the back of the pack for home
use. I do not know a single business, at least a fortune 500, or any
municipality that uses FreeBSD for their office PCs. If FreeBSD wants
to stay relevant in the home market, they need to up their game and
stop putting out a new version simply to put out a new version and
rather invest the time and effort required to correct the existing bugs
in FreeBSD and create drivers for newer devices.

-- 
Jerry

And in the immortal words of Elvira Hancock's advice to Tony Montana,
"Don't get high on your own supply."