Video: FreeBSD - The Next 10 Years

Jordan Hubbard... should need no introduction but if you don't know who he is, look him up... anyway, Mr. Hubbard spoke recently at the MeetBSD 2014 conference giving a presentation entitled, "FreeBSD: The next 10 years".

One thing I want to point out is his section on the init system. Here's a direct link to that section that I couldn't figure out to get to with the embedded video. Anyway, in the embedded video feel free to move the play head to about 27 minutes and 32 seconds into it manually if you don't want to watch the whole thing.

So FreeBSD may very well be moving to an init system modeled after Apple's Mac OS X's launchd... and since systemd also borrowed some ideas from launchd (as well as a few other systems)... systemd haters can move to FreeBSD... but how long before it also changes in ways they don't like? Oh, and I like the way Mr. Hubbard refers to systemd. :)

Here's some choice bullet points from one of his slides:

• We need to be open to fundamentally new approaches and ruthlessly cull what is no longer demonstrably useful to the 99%
• We need to be willing to shamelessly steal^H^H^H^H^H adopt things that are working well for others
• We need to take on some big-picture challenges that will appeal to the next generation of hackers (where's the next mountain?)

Enjoy.