Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:48:39 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0701092248p2b648d9bgf63471bb6e4bec@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070110051608.GB80575@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <45A2805E.7060000@ccstores.com> <20070109222558.GA75695@xor.obsecurity.org> <ef10de9a0701091507s2ed7c15v1df6131dfa8c58f7@mail.gmail.com> <20070110051608.GB80575@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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.
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