I am sad to see this thread.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-May/069401.html
It was like an RFC with the conclusion already decided.
.
"Are you saying there is only one way forward?"
They appeared on the verge of ramrodding this through before this comment.
Thank goodness Rodney spoke up. Being an original FreeBSD developer, along with Kirk, he really is close to a god in my eyes.
Great that he came back to work on FreeBSD.
I just wonder about the attitude of some of these developers.
Do they realize that FreeBSD is used in third world countries.
Not everyone is working for Netflix and drives a Tesla.
Quote:
"So it boils down to the question of allowing old, obsolete hardware, which
nobody's sure works anyway, to get in the way of moving forward to more
modern hardware? I'm trying to find value from supporting i386, and a
community willing to do that work and I'm not seeing much of either."
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-May/069401.html
It was like an RFC with the conclusion already decided.
.
"Are you saying there is only one way forward?"
They appeared on the verge of ramrodding this through before this comment.
Thank goodness Rodney spoke up. Being an original FreeBSD developer, along with Kirk, he really is close to a god in my eyes.
Great that he came back to work on FreeBSD.
I just wonder about the attitude of some of these developers.
Do they realize that FreeBSD is used in third world countries.
Not everyone is working for Netflix and drives a Tesla.
Quote:
"So it boils down to the question of allowing old, obsolete hardware, which
nobody's sure works anyway, to get in the way of moving forward to more
modern hardware? I'm trying to find value from supporting i386, and a
community willing to do that work and I'm not seeing much of either."