Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:40:23 +1100 From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!! Message-ID: <20050210094023.GA21722@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <108284711.20050210103325@wanadoo.fr> References: <20050210055117.GA96699@keyslapper.net> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEFGFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <108284711.20050210103325@wanadoo.fr>
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Anthony Atkielski (atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) [050210 20:34]: > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > Yep, I was wondering how long it would take before someone figured > > this one out. We know the real rea$on$ that this logo change is > > being contemplated, don't we. > Personally, I wonder how FreeBSD survives based exclusively on volunteer > efforts. It's a noble idea, but in the real world, things cost money, > and people need to earn a living. Something that survives exclusively > from the kindness of strangers leads a fragile existence. FreeBSD has a > large following and seems reasonably stable, but when something is a > volunteer effort, the larger the following, the better. Netcraft confirms it: FreeBSD is dying! I'd rather see effort towards some of the really *stupid* bugs in 5.x that languish for months with a fix included. Like linux-pango being broken, meaning that by default you can't actually run a lot of recent Linux binaries (a Thunderbird nightly got me on that one). Or /etc/fstab allowing msdos as a disk type but fsck not, and the fsck refusing to accept the fix despite the system inconsistency. *Stupid* little things like that are actually the most distressing thing about 5.x - I use FreeBSD because it mostly does The Right Thing. - d.
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