FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Julian Elischer]

On 1/17/12 2:41 PM, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:57:19PM +0000 I heard the voice of
> Hugo Silva, and lo! it spake thus:
>> Come to think about it, those days are pretty much gone since 4.x
>> (incidentally, many of us who've stuck with FreeBSD for this long
>> think of 4.x as an epic series).
> Having been a FreeBSD user for a very long time, I don't think of 4.x
> as epic.  I think of 5.x as a clusterf...un.  4.x didn't last such a
> long time because everyone thought it was awesome, it was because the
> next version was still so broken it was the only thing we had to
> release.
>
5 was not out on a limb for so long because it was a clusterfun, it was
out there because it was a rework of how almost everything in the
kernel worked.  Everything written since 1978 had to be rewritten
to some extent.

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