Where is FreeBSD going?

[Marian Hettwer]

Joao Schim wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:56:04 +0100
> Marian Hettwer <MH at kernel32.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Keep up the good work, and improve talking to end users / non-programmers
>>;) There are a bunch of "features" missing in FreeBSD which a Laptop 
>>definitly needs.
> 
> 
> But i guess you need a discussion on development direction first.
> As mentioned OBSD has a strong hand on security. FBSD used to be
> talked about as technically superior to linux. I dont hear much 
> about that lately.  Does FreeBSD choose to be "Laptop Friendly" or
> will FreeBSD keep the "Power to Serve"-only attitude. Like in an
> earlier discussion there was talk about FreeBSD does not choose to
> be a Desktop OS.  If advocacy can only be driven in the server-only
> direction its not gonna spread that well. 
> Thats is ofcourse if you choose such growth.. Choices.. Choices..
>
True.
Anyhow, don't take the Laptop statement from me to serious. I am aware 
that FreeBSD is mainly a Server OS. But nevertheless, we have agp 
support, we have PCMCIA support (lacking CARDBUS in 4.x). And in my 
opinion, that's what we need. If I do administrate unix servers, I'd 
like to have a unix on my laptop. And actually, I like my FreeBSD :)
I just would like to have full functionality of PCMCIA cards, like 
cardbus cards.
Nevertheless, it's not the main point.
The main question was: How to give FreeBSD more PR?

best regards,
Marian