From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 05:42:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52EC816A421 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 05:42:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@toorak.com) Received: from tintin.toorak.com (ns.toorak.com [203.43.140.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D1113C45E for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 05:42:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@toorak.com) Received: from Colossus.local (colossus [203.43.140.124]) by tintin.toorak.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l545Lc8f011124 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:21:41 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from bruce@toorak.com) Message-ID: <4663A161.5080209@toorak.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:21:37 +1000 From: Bruce Stephens User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Macintosh/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <2a41acea0705301751t3d475bdagbb153e5ed25be8a5@mail.gmail.com> <20070531182233.GB1941@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <2a41acea0705311519l31dd95b3t81d70e321893f564@mail.gmail.com> <20070604045337.GG16563@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DKIM_POLICY_SIGNSOME, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME autolearn=no version=3.2.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.0 (2007-05-01) on tintin.toorak.com Subject: Re: New driver coming soon. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:42:50 -0000 FreeBSD becoming competitive?? Absolutely and the two major factors are the multiple disparate versions of Linux and Microsoft's meddling with SuSE and Novell - again... Isn't that familiar??!!! (FreeBSD 1.0 !!) FreeBSD is increasing important in the Business world as well. -Bruce. Kip Macy wrote: > On 6/3/07, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >> 0n Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:19:44PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: >> >> > FreeBSD customer base has been miniscule so not much has >> > been done to the code, maybe someday in my spare time :) >> >> "miniscule" ? That's scary to hear :( > > Until the last year, FreeBSD lagged in network performance, so trying > to push 10 GigE on it was not all that compelling. > > FreeBSD is fast becoming competitive again. I also see a number of > non-technical factors that may drive a resurgence of interest in > FreeBSD. > > > -Kip > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >