Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th May 2002 06:30 UTC
The question was asked recently on a FreeBSD mailing list, "What will be new in FreeBSD 5.0?" The thread discussed several ways a person could obtain such information, one good source being the latest release notes. The first developer preview of 5.0 was released on April 8th. The final release is targeted for the end of this year. Robert Watson offered an interesting summary of items to look forward to in FreeBSD 5.0, including: SMPng ("next generation" symmetric multiprocessing), KSE (improved scheduling), devfs (automatic /dev management), Firewire support, and much more. Read on KernelTrap for more details.
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No offense, but here's my opposing opinion.
If anything, BSD is on the virge of dethroneing Linux.
No it won't. I like BSD as well as the next guy, but it just isn't there yet.
For people like myself, a command line install is no big deal. All my favorite OSs have them. This is exactly why my favorite distros and BSD aren't as popular. They aren't very accessible to the average user.
Any moron can install Mandrake or RedHat and use it to some degree, but BSD is much more difficult for the average user. Most average users can't even figure out how to create a partition during a BSD install. Also, configuring your system is still easier under Linux.
Until BSD has all the flashy knobs and buttons of distros like Mandrake, BSD will never dethrone Linux. Not even if it does support .NET.
After all, with Microsoft throwing their support behind FreeBSD and porting .NET and C# to FreeBSD.
Does this mean that no programming languages exist now except for .NET and C#? Have you actually used either of these things? Hey guys, C#'s out now, so we can all start coding!
C# is a great replacement for VB (but then again, so is a gutted fish), but it doesn't come close to being a one-stop dev tool. ASP.NET is better than ASP in performance, but it still doesn't compare to the power offered by other technologies in the internet programming space.
The Windows programming world has not been revolutionized or revitalized by C# or .NET (if anything it has become more irritating). It won't be any different with BSD.
Besides, .NET is more marketing and hype than anything else. The main purpose for its existance is to generate revenue for MS. Not only in people buying their dev tools, but they want to move to a subscription based model and .NET is what will help them do it.
This doesn't make sense in the BSD realm (except to MS because they hope BSD users will buy Office.NET when it's released). I really don't think .NET will receive more than a sideways glance in this arena. .NET doesn't offer anything that can't already be done anyway. It may make it easier to accomplish tasks, but that's about it.
A lot of Linux zealots will probably downplay this and try to say it won't matter.
Nice way to invalidate any opposing point of view before they are even made. Demonize your opposition to invalidate their opinions. You must be a politician.
But Linus himself seemed to be concerned over it (remember his childish comments and his temper tantrum he threw after Microsoft announced they would support FreeBSD with .NET and C#.)
You obviously haven't seen Bill Gates or Steve Balmer in action. Gates especially can roll around on the floor kicking and whining like a 3 year old if he doesn't get his way. Why did you think his hair is always so messed up?
Anyway, in the end, .NUT is still a closed, proprietary technology. To think that it is going to take an open community by storm is either wishful thinking or ignorance.