Re: Using a FreeBSD desktop was somehting about dog food

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 5:29 PM Jerry Seibert <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote:

> 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."
>






I am always mentioning that  without a sufficiently  large user base ,
approximately
a large number of companies will not be interested in FreeBSD  because they
will
not be able to sell products to FreeBSD users to recover their expenses .
I am a subscriber of many FreeBSD mailing lists .  It is very easy to store
a
copy of mailing list archives by using  "wget" .
If we count  the current FreeBSD users , we will see that the number ( NOT
value ) of
them is small .  Newcomers are  very rare .

In this world , there is a "Natural Law" saying that people will leave work
after an
age .  This "age" is reaching consistently .
Question is : "Who will make FreeBSD live ?"


Whatever the point of looking at FreeBSD , the main point is the answer to
this question .
Generate technologically a very good open source Operating System , and ,
then ,
send it to the Cemetery of Operating Systems" ...


Since 1970 , I saw that the number of residents of that cemetery is
increasing fastly .
There is plenty of land there .
Do not worry ,  in this world , there is only one place where dying is
prohibited :


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place where dying is prohibited



Mehmet Erol Sanliturk