I have to say that I agree with most of DT comments regarding the state of FreeBSD5+, after having watched the progress (or lack there of) for over three years.
<snip>Maybe its just time for the entire FreeBSD team to come out of its world of delusion and come to terms with what every real-life user of FreeBSD knows: In how ever many years of development, there is still no good reason to use anything other than FreeBSD 4.x except that 4.x doesn't support a lot of newer harder. <snip> It seems that the complexity (and pollution) of the code base has increased with each release. With this the developers that are able to track down and fix bugs seem few and far between with the overall complexity of the code base (the ULE scheduler, current problems with the threading model, etc). I wish that 4.X was still supported in a way too, until DF had a fully threaded network stack (that does seem to be a ways off yet). When this is accomplished, there probably will not be much reason to run any of the other flavors of BSD like DT mentioned . My day job I am involved with sys admin and dB admin on large multiprocessor HPUX systems running 11.11 and Oracle 10gR2. I am very impressed with the amount of work that has been done with DF given the relatively few number of developers, and resources compared to FreeBSD. I look forward to what will be accomplished in the next year with great anticipation! Glenn
