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Screw the naysayers who said FreeBSD wouldn't make it.


Don't think there are any.


I don't know if they count as serious naysayers or not, but: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?76208-FreeBSD-is-D...


Waste of time even linking to such unfounded garbage. I would've been disappointed in myself for reading it, if it wasn't for the comedy factor.

The whole thread reeks of trolls and teenage-conspiracy-loving gullibility.

Thanks for the laugh.


Why does anybody care what some forum troll on Phoronix says? I was replying to a statement that made it sound like Linux users had declared jihad on FreeBSD.


Why does anyone care what Eric S. Raymond says?

'cause he thinks FreeBSD is a turd, too.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=538&cpage=1#comment-229100


Meh, this is the same guy that wrote a nasty gram to some Microsoft recruiter when an simple email saying "no thanks" would have sufficed:

esr.ibiblio.org/?p=208


Slashdotters were quite certain of FreeBSD's impending death when a story about the fundraiser not having reached its goal yet from not so long ago.




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