About Freebsd Foundation

[Alain De Vos]

Where they put there money in.
Development of very obscure Wifi driver for a laptop, where you can put a wifi usb for a few Euros.
Do they know what is important ?

 

[Alain De Vos]

Kde (Wayland) by default ? Forcing me to crash my NVIDIA ?

 

[richardtoohey2]

I think some of it is driven from the survey e.g. https://freebsdfoundation.org/insights-from-the-2025-freebsd-community-survey/

Who does know what is important? As in what group knows?

Personally I do not use Wifi or desktops or NVidia with FreeBSD - I only want server "stuff" being focused on. Other users, I suspect, might want something else.

 

[SirDice]

Where they put there money in.

Financials | FreeBSD Foundation

2025 2025 Budget Summary 2025 Q1-Q3 Profit & Loss Report 2024 2024 Profit & Loss Report 2024 Balance Sheet 2024 Budget Summary 2023 2023 Profit & Loss Report 2023 Balance Sheet 2023 Budget Summary 2022 2022 Profit & Loss Report 2022 Balance Sheet 2022 Budget Summary 2021 2021 Profit & Loss...

freebsdfoundation.org

 

[Alain De Vos]

Interesting, will have a look.

 

[scottro]

Speaking as a narcissist, I would have to say that I *like* the fact that effort is going into improving wireless. I have a Thinkpad T495 with a card that gets slow speeds on FreeBSD. (Actually, last time I checked, so did the USBs that were available, though this was some years ago.) My point here, all joking aside, is that different people want different things--for me, one of those things is wireless speed to match Linux's, to you, that's a silly one, especially when other (but probably still slow) already working ones are available. I would guess that richardtoohey2 is right, and much of it was probably taken from a survey, which at least gives them an idea of what people want. (Oh dear, now I have the Spice Girls Wannabe stuck in my head, probably for the next 15 minutes)