From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 3 11:35:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E6A106566C for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 11:35:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hans@beastielabs.net) Received: from mail.beastielabs.net (beasties.demon.nl [82.161.3.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E32A8FC13 for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 11:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from merom.hotsoft.nl (merom.hotsoft.nl [192.168.0.12]) by mail.beastielabs.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pB3AvtQL080096; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 11:57:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hans@beastielabs.net) Message-ID: <4EDA00AC.4020501@beastielabs.net> Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:57:48 +0100 From: Hans Ottevanger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Moura References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Why aren't you using FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:35:00 -0000 On 11/08/11 17:48, Alex Moura wrote: > Why aren't you using FreeBSD? > http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/why-arent-you-using-freebsd-178119?page=0,1 This article was "discussed" after being quoted fully out-of-context on Slashdot shortly after it appeared. Still, I think the original article is of a quite reasonable quality and certainly deserves to be mentioned under "In the media" on www.freebsd.org. Who do I need to contact for this? Other valid questions that I often hear asked are of course "Why do you -still- use FreeBSD?" and "Why are you moving away from FreeBSD?". A discussion on the latter (and what to do about) it was conducted a bit out-of-place on arch@ starting last August: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2011-August/011412.html Up to now I have not seen a clear opinion or point-of-view stated by the FreeBSD project "as-a-project", but I still see FreeBSD being phased out by diverse entities at a fast pace, in application areas where it traditionally was very strong (web, mail, etc.). Kind regards, Hans