Re: Using a FreeBSD desktop was somehting about dog food

On 3/27/22 23:25, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> 	The "home market" has *never* been the focus of FreeBSD and FreeBSD
> has been falling behind in it since around 1993. We've been being told that
> FreeBSD is dead and been supplanted by Linux since around 1997. Strangely
> the dying FreeBSD project seems to have more resources and more developers
> than it did when it was the powerhouse behind Yahoo!, Hotmail, Walnut Creek
> CDROM et al.
>
> 	FreeBSD makes fine servers and workstations, and has superb long
> term maintainability. To me these things are more important than having
> support for the latest undocumented hardware. Others have different needs
> and values and make different choices.
>
> 	What would be the point of making FreeBSD indistinguishable from
> Linux or MacOS or Windows or Z/OS or ... Far better that FreeBSD be what it
> is and keep on doing what it does best.

+1.

Mark.