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I wish more people would run FreeBSD because it would make both Linux and FreeBSD stronger. Single platforms stagnate, we’ve seen it before with IE6 and we’re

• nicoburns 5y ago
  > Single platforms stagnate, we’ve seen it before with IE6 and we’re starting to see it again. They do, but at least chromium is open source. If it stagnated like IE6 then someone would fork it.
  • foepys 5y ago
    > someone would fork it. This myth needs to die. Yes, somebody would fork it but it would very, very quickly become stale as well. It costs tens of millions to develop a browser engine nowadays, it's not something a few hobbyists can develop in the evening after their day job. Microsoft didn't choose Chromium for their new Edge engine because they love Google, they chose it purely from an economic point of view. Even Microsoft doesn't want to develop a browser engine. Microsoft.
• tristor 5y ago
  Ironically, as much as I love FreeBSD, I am being forced to migrate to Linux because the USB mass storage support on FreeBSD is broken on Dell rack servers. I recently migrated to a newer generation Dell server w/ 16TB disks to replace my aging fleet of R710s and cut my power usage considerably, and found I could no longer reliably keep a server online if I boot from USB. There's several threads about this on the FreeBSD forums, including one I started, and the general consensus of the community is "don't do that thing you're doing that works perfectly fine on every other OS, even Windows." not "FreeBSD is broken and this bug should be fixed." I've fought the good fight for FreeBSD for more than a decade, and my last system running it is getting Debian installed on it in the near-term future.