It is also used by end‐users as a work‐horse (e.g. To be able to put that into scope, I need to clarify what “relevant” means in this case.įreeBSD is currently used by companies like Netflix, NetApp, Cisco, Juniper, and many others as a base for products or services. What I present here, is my very own opinion about things we in the FreeBSD project should look at, to stay relevant in the long term. This discussion on the mailinglists also triggered some kind of “where do we see us in the next years” / strategic thinking reflection. Someone wants to write a kernel module in (a subset of) C++ or in Rust… well, go ahead, give it a try, we can put it into the Ports Collection and let people get experience with it. We should not hold people back in exploring new / different directions. In my opinion this is similarly bad to blindly saying FreeBSD is dead and following the masses. Some people just had the opinion that we should stay where we are. Recently there were some mails on the FreeBSD lists in the sense of “What about going into direction X?”. Sometimes those voices raise a valid concern, and it is up to the FreeBSD project to filter out what would be beneficial. competition stimulates business, …) or even dare to look what FreeBSD has to offer. Sometimes those voices wear blinders, they only see their own little world (were Linux just works fine) and do not see the big picture (like e.g.
Most of the time those voices are trolls, or people which do not really know what FreeBSD has to offer. Since I participate in the FreeBSD project there are from time to time some voices which say FreeBSD is dead, Linux is the way to go. # Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant Strategic thinking to keep FreeBSD relevant, reflecting on the soul of a new machine, 10GbE Benchmarks On Nine Linux Distros and FreeBSD, NetBSD integrating LLVM sanitizers in base, FreeNAS 11.2 distrowatch review, and more.