by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Monday February 16, 2015 @09:09PM (#49070485)
If any operating system ends up rising to become important, it'll be probably one that has some company in particular backing it, otherwise there won't be any way to get relationships serious enough to make others take it truly seriously. Now, what company would be it, or with what intentions, that's up to debate.
You can see who works on PC-BSD by checking out the commit history on the official github repo [github.com] Kris Moore is one of the main contributors and is a really nice guy. He works for iXsystems.
FreeNAS is a different beastie. Here is the github [github.com]. As you can see there is actually very little overlap, but a lot of cross pollination between the various BSDs.
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If any operating system ends up rising to become important, it'll be probably one that has some company in particular backing it, otherwise there won't be any way to get relationships serious enough to make others take it truly seriously. Now, what company would be it, or with what intentions, that's up to debate.
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Actually the fellows who work on PC-BSD, or most of them, work for a company called iX Systems [ixsystems.com] that provides servers and storage.
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You can see who works on PC-BSD by checking out the commit history on the official github repo [github.com] Kris Moore is one of the main contributors and is a really nice guy. He works for iXsystems.
FreeNAS is a different beastie. Here is the github [github.com]. As you can see there is actually very little overlap, but a lot of cross pollination between the various BSDs.
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Yes, he joined them in 2013. He is their CTO I believe now. But PC-BSD is quite a bit older than that.