From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 17:49:24 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE68A1065677 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:49:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mozolevsky@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FC88FC14 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:49:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbdx13 with SMTP id x13so2801727pbd.13 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:49:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=3nOn9TdD8aEb5rCXGnYcHstTcLyD2yHDSawnNN/wtJM=; b=hAL3Ibw0j6Fm0YCCFMuUdVd4hW4//Q7KzvKhvxTALaCUYhSBAbLVfNC0TfbNmWL7fS gk4FD0g5dp7WsdXq8My6n9BBQu53ZxOWAnvsujc8QmsmCet/hGK6/A3ttg773uTfJN8T tBWrvcYuMyC1LTI2TjMQZmF74ZWBBtu63AAC0= Received: by 10.68.73.138 with SMTP id l10mr35937763pbv.65.1326822564148; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:49:24 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: mozolevsky@gmail.com Received: by 10.68.28.199 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:48:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Igor Mozolevsky Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:48:43 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: fp8OVUBdAVER-6r1xVcOq474irU Message-ID: To: Mark Felder Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:49:24 -0000 On 17 January 2012 15:39, Mark Felder wrote: > FreeBSD is increasingly becoming a third world citizen thanks to > virtualization efforts being focused on Linux, so I feel that more > frequent releases won't help as many people as you think. I would guess that for folks like VMWare, the choice of their focus is essentially determined by their customers and not by them themselves. So if VMWare choose to focus more on Linux over FreeBSD it is simply indicative that VMWare's customers demand Linux support more that the FreeBSD one... Now, why is there more end-user demand for Linux than FreeBSD? I am guessing that is exactly what John K's original post was trying to address... -- Igor M. :-)