[Ukfreebsd] Very Quiet

Paul Webster paul.g.webster at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 9 15:43:46 GMT 2012


Robert, Kevin:

Perhaps we should start using Facebook or Twitter and be really '21st  
century' :) *ducks*

-- Paul

On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:35:31 -0000, O'Connor, Kevin  
<KevinO'Connor at merseyfire.gov.uk> wrote:

> 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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