[Ukfreebsd] Very Quiet

[O'Connor, Kevin]

Robert,

Glad to hear such positive news. 
Maybe I should stop using news groups and mailing lists and drag myself
into the 21st century. 

Kevin 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukfreebsd-bounces at uk.freebsd.org [mailto:ukfreebsd-
> bounces at uk.freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert N. M. Watson
> Sent: 09 November 2012 15:03
> To: UK FreeBSD Users
> Subject: Re: [Ukfreebsd] Very Quiet
> 
> Hi Kevin:
> 
> Don't know about everyone else, but we're seeing significantly more
use of
> FreeBSD at Cambridge, and I've just attended the FreeBSD vendor summit
at
> Yahoo! in Sunnyvale yesterday, where we're seeing many more companies
> involved in the community than ever before. I sat down with Netflex on
> Wednesday, who are now deploying FreeBSD-based cache servers across
> the world, and very excited about this, and Microsoft was at the
Vendor
> summit announcing Azure support will start soon (and they were there
to
> discuss upstreaming drivers to the base OS). It's also quite
interesting to see
> companies like Dell using FreeBSD in multiple products (Kace,
Compellent).
> 
> There's an interesting observation to be made about the various
> downstream open source FreeBSD "distributions", however: systems like
PC-
> BSD, pfSense, FreeNAS, etc, collectively have hundreds of thousand
users,
> but their support questions are not going to the main FreeBSD mailing
lists.
> Instead, they tend to go to online forums. Likewise, the FreeBSD forum
web
> site is getting increasing quantities of end user support requests,
rather than
> the mailing lists. Maybe you and I are just old fuddy-duddies in the
electronic
> communication department!
> 
> Robert
> 
> On 9 Nov 2012, at 06:32, O'Connor, Kevin wrote:
> 
> > I've been on this mailing list for over 13 years and the last year
or
> > so it's been very quiet.
> >
> > Are we not attracting new users to the OS or do the young ones use
> > something more modern than mailing lists and if they do what is it.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm also more than willing to accept that my favourite OS has become
> > so stable and mature that no one ever gets any problems anymore.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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