From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Dec 10 20:27:45 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08AE8E9A9E5 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:27:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C938718D0 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:27:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1512937668; x=1515529668; h=x-thread-info:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0YhgDGmwwH2rOOifMJfgNmw8p7e6Irh+5RzfebH7gVg=; b=TkUc3sjWwV8LcI4jXmjeAQZkLQsAlh4p4Vde8JH973yvWjwST1nU2pGjXd3QdTqVNZ88H6g1SgSuf5Ahn3PkJAeRFMFv7AXJnGAfixI/t/HXMI1unQqDadqt880bKM5Dv93FqzTW6B/ypuUBJHP944gHZbSpvk6idlcq08ZidlM= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi44MTAwMDAwMDY2NTZjYy5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r3.h.in.socketlabs.com (r3.h.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.180.13]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:27:38 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r3.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:27:35 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1eO8CD-000Fpr-Cd for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:27:33 +0000 Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:27:33 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUDA under FreeBSD Message-Id: <20171210202733.82d271c7b45a85f28b5ff46c@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <5A2D8FA7.2030401@gmail.com> References: <34331.107.77.207.211.1512384505.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <0545699d-9df7-ced2-4990-27e3ecb8e531@ShaneWare.Biz> <5A2D8FA7.2030401@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:27:45 -0000 On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:48:55 -0700 JD wrote: > It seems (to me) that fbsd might be dropped altogether, and developers > will not waste their time and talent on an OS that has a very very small > installed base. People have been saying things like that about FreeBSD for the last twenty years, it's still going strong. Developers spend time on FreeBSD because they want FreeBSD, they don't really care how many other people want it as well so long as there are enough people interested in developing it to keep it going and improving. Companies like nVidia do care about market share, they know that if they provide Linux support it will make a noticeable difference to their sales but FreeBSD support probably won't. It seems very likely (but impossible to tell for sure) that the installed base of FreeBSD is larger today than it was when ftp.cdrom.com held the record for the busiest ftp site a couple of decades ago. However the installed base of Linux is far larger than it was then (larger than the installed base of any other OS if you include Android as a flavour of Linux). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith