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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:37:30 -0500
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?
Message-ID:  <20070110003730.GA94711@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0701091508k7f1775f7h4c2cdc8c7498e7fc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:08:45PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> >> 
> >http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Gentoo/FreeBSD: license problems require a development pause
> >>
> >> 
> >http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/07/gentoo-freebsd-license-problems-requires-a-development-pause
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> The big license mess, part 2
> >>
> >> 
> >http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/07/the-big-license-mess-part-2
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> Gentoo/FreeBSD On Hold Due To Licensing Issues
> >
> >No.
> >
> >Kris
> >
> >
> 
> Why then? Are you guys ever going to do something about Xorg DRI/DRM
> for Radeon cards, Java, and Flash support? More importantly:
> 1. Xen Dom0 support?
> 2. Fix SATA RAID driver problems?
> 3. Better chipset support for new 51xx Xeon and Core 2 Duo systems?
> 4. ZFS support?
> 5. Better support for 2TB, or greater, RAID arrays: (fsck, etc.)?
> 6. Speed up GigE and 10GigE stuff? checksum offloading, Interrupt load
> problems, packet processing speed, etc?
> 7. Better SMP support, GIANT lock in RAID/LAN drivers, etc...
> 
> Why should I continue using FreeBSD when the project never delivers on
> it promises?

Don't. 
FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers.
Seems like you just posted a nice list of things 
for you to get busy and contribute.

////jerry

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