[geeks] The best things in the world

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Sep 13, 2008, at 17:15 , Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>
>> [FreeBSD]
>>> Starting with 5.x they abandoned reason and went on a massive
>>> feature bloat just like Linux did with 2.6.
>> That bad? Sad. (The last FreeBSD I saw closer was around 4. I used
>> 2.2.18 for a long time.)
>
> Reports of FreeBSD's bloat tend to be wildly overstated.  This is  
> from a
> fresh "everything" install of FreeBSD 7:

It's not binary our source size I was referring too.

I'm talking about feature and change bloat.

After 4.x they needed to focus on speed, SMP, and bug fixes.

Instead they made huge changes that were obviously way too much to do  
at once, and FreeBSD was a mess for years afterward, still is in some  
areas.

I found FreeBSD unusable until release 7, and even that has issues.





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