Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-02-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 09:13:25PM +0100, Martin Tournoij wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:49:23PM -0600, Brandon Falk wrote: > > > Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact > > that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA > > and ATI 64-

Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-02-28 Thread Brett Glass
At 06:06 PM 2/28/2010, Charlie Kester wrote: If you don't understand that there's an aesthetic aspect to Unix, you'll miss what a lot of people are complaining about with GNUish stuff. There's that, too. So many longwinded command line options that they had to start using double dashes. And L

Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-02-28 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 28 Feb 2010 at 16:26:46 PST Brett Glass wrote: At 11:53 AM 2/28/2010, Jamie wrote: In BSD (DragonflyBSD,FreeBSD,OpenBSD) there is a real attitude problem, the idea seems to be "GNU sucks and you should use BSD alternatives". The problem is with the licensing. Those

Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-02-28 Thread Brett Glass
At 11:53 AM 2/28/2010, Jamie wrote: In BSD (DragonflyBSD,FreeBSD,OpenBSD) there is a real attitude problem, the idea seems to be "GNU sucks and you should use BSD alternatives". The problem is with the licensing. Those of us who are professional developers and develop

Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-02-28 Thread Jamie
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:49:23PM -0600, Brandon Falk wrote: > Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact > that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA > and ATI 64-bit drivers) is really starting to bother me. o IBM When IBM first

Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-02-28 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 28 Feb 2010 at 10:49:23 PST Brandon Falk wrote: Hello there FreeBSD people, Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA and ATI 64-bit drivers) is really starting to bother me. I guess I wou

Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-02-28 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:49:23PM -0600, Brandon Falk wrote: > Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact > that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA > and ATI 64-bit drivers) is really starting to bother me. The reason there are no 64bit n

Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-02-28 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:49:23PM -0600, Brandon Falk wrote: > Hello there FreeBSD people, > > Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact > that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA > and ATI 64-bit drivers) is really starting to bother me.

FreeBSD Popularity

2010-02-28 Thread Brandon Falk
Hello there FreeBSD people, Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA and ATI 64-bit drivers) is really starting to bother me. I guess I would like to have a bit of a discussion of what could be i