From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 06:48:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509F816A403 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:48:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE5513C458 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:48:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so12866uge for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:48:39 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NEZUoL9osy0KIb8rzgpnftHZQU1h7Ut81EFFCva17ifQ045UxZ9uCL9Ge31dRUsZ4QMchkMuU1HTLiMr5L4EDj14/7U0VjWxBvbyiBfwIt33IWUfJ8V9pXdyE1pm+uQyWKoiUVeRPFe7fpHaIkNyxblvxsVDO2OfcT0w8JUyqdQ= Received: by 10.78.183.15 with SMTP id g15mr4614744huf.1168411719471; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:48:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.118.10 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 22:48:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:48:39 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <20070110051608.GB80575@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45A2805E.7060000@ccstores.com> <20070109222558.GA75695@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070110051608.GB80575@xor.obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:48:41 -0000 On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:07:08PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > Why then? > > Various administrative delays, mostly. e.g. the main ftp distribution > server had hardware failure for a few weeks. > Shit happens and we did just change out the core team, specifically the release engineering team... so that's understandable... I guess my comment was mainly targeted at the general state of affairs for the last two years. > > Are you guys ever going to do something about Xorg DRI/DRM > > for Radeon cards, Java, and Flash support? More importantly: > > 1. Xen Dom0 support? > > 2. Fix SATA RAID driver problems? > > 3. Better chipset support for new 51xx Xeon and Core 2 Duo systems? > > 4. ZFS support? > > 5. Better support for 2TB, or greater, RAID arrays: (fsck, etc.)? > > 6. Speed up GigE and 10GigE stuff? checksum offloading, Interrupt load > > problems, packet processing speed, etc? > > 7. Better SMP support, GIANT lock in RAID/LAN drivers, etc... > > Some of these are already there, some are in progress, etc. > I haven't been keeping track lately but that's good if true. Will see what happens when I upgrade my servers. > > Why should I continue using FreeBSD when the project never delivers on > > it promises? > > If you're unhappy, there's the door. Pandering to complainers isn't > high on my personal list of interests. > I am unhappy but I care too much about FreeBSD to just up and leave, it may be time for a sabbatical though... And I complain because I care... like a parent.