FreeBSD is focused on being a traditional Unix system. Unlike a lot of Linux distribution like Ubuntu who try to be desktop or workstation that they want to compete against OS X and Windows. FreeBSD mostly stays the Pure Unix system for others to work off of.
FreeBSD is the Chocolate Bar Operating Systems. Where most of the new candy out there will be based on a Chocolate bar, they will have Nuts, Caramel, nugget.... That will try to make the candy more complex for peoples particular liking, the Standard Chocolate Bar is still around and when the fad candies go away, they will always go back to the Chocolate Bar and build the next fad off of that.
FreeBSD doesn't have too many changes that are noticeable, but they are often necessary to keep it current in today's time.
Maybe not the best metaphor, then (even if dark chocolate bars are not vegan due to milk, and fair trade goods are often sub-par) - but the point is still made. Your "chocolate bar OS" is going to become rubbish.
Consider: your metaphor was to compare FreeBSD to the most standard, generic, and widely accepted sort of candy bar, a chocolate bar. The vast majority of plain ol' chocolate bars are milk chocolate.
Regardless of the milk content in a dark chocolate bar, this is no longer the standard. And a lot of people don't much like them - they are bitter and yucky to many.
Secondly, if morons don't like dark chocolate bars then it's not the duty of the candy companies to taint their dark chocolate with milk, it's the morons who should buy milk chocolate bars instead.
...FreeBSD was selected for its balance of stability and features, a strong development community and staff expertise. All code improvements, feature additions, and bug fixes are contributed directly back to the open source community via the FreeBSD committers on our team. We also strive to stay at the front of the FreeBSD development process, allowing us to have a tight feedback loop with other community and partner developers. The result has been a positive open source ecosystem that lowers our development costs and multiplies the effectiveness of our efforts....
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
-- R. A. Heinlein
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Much since version 6 or 7. Usually they make noticeable updates
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FreeBSD is focused on being a traditional Unix system. Unlike a lot of Linux distribution like Ubuntu who try to be desktop or workstation that they want to compete against OS X and Windows. FreeBSD mostly stays the Pure Unix system for others to work off of.
FreeBSD is the Chocolate Bar Operating Systems.
Where most of the new candy out there will be based on a Chocolate bar, they will have Nuts, Caramel, nugget.... That will try to make the candy more complex for peoples particular liking, the Standard Chocolate Bar is still around and when the fad candies go away, they will always go back to the Chocolate Bar and build the next fad off of that.
FreeBSD doesn't have too many changes that are noticeable, but they are often necessary to keep it current in today's time.
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Well, until they adopt a new CoC.
They your chocolate bar will be a gluten free, vegan, free trade, carob chunk.
It won't satisfy, but that's ok, because it'll taste really bad, too.
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A dark chocolate bar is Gluten Free, Vegan, and full of Carbs. Free Trade wouldn't effect its taste.
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Maybe not the best metaphor, then (even if dark chocolate bars are not vegan due to milk, and fair trade goods are often sub-par) - but the point is still made. Your "chocolate bar OS" is going to become rubbish.
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Dark chocolate bars are not supposed to have milk...
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Racist.
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This actually breaks your own metaphor.
Consider: your metaphor was to compare FreeBSD to the most standard, generic, and widely accepted sort of candy bar, a chocolate bar. The vast majority of plain ol' chocolate bars are milk chocolate.
Regardless of the milk content in a dark chocolate bar, this is no longer the standard. And a lot of people don't much like them - they are bitter and yucky to many.
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That was not my own metaphor as I was not the OP.
Secondly, if morons don't like dark chocolate bars then it's not the duty of the candy companies to taint their dark chocolate with milk, it's the morons who should buy milk chocolate bars instead.
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So you are saying that I should not put milk on my FreeBSD motherboard to improve it's chocolate performance?
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...FreeBSD is focused on being a traditional Unix system....
FreeBSD is responsible for a lot of traffic on the 'Net. https://openconnect.netflix.co... [netflix.com]
...FreeBSD was selected for its balance of stability and features, a strong development community and staff expertise. All code improvements, feature additions, and bug fixes are contributed directly back to the open source community via the FreeBSD committers on our team. We also strive to stay at the front of the FreeBSD development process, allowing us to have a tight feedback loop with other community and partner developers. The result has been a positive open source ecosystem that lowers our development costs and multiplies the effectiveness of our efforts....