FreeBSD Is Trying To Figure Out If Anyone Uses Its VGL Graphics Library

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FreeBSD Is Trying To Figure Out If Anyone Uses Its VGL Graphics Library

FreeBSD VGL provides a library for accessing graphics modes and carrying out basic drawing operations atop its syscons console driver. Not only is basic graphics output on a virtual console supported by libvgl, but mouse input is too handled. However, not many people seem to be using this library...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-VGL-libvgl-Anyone

[cjcox]

But isn't BSD d-e-a..... oh, wait, nobody is using that "joke" anymore either.

[clockley1]

-d...

[speculatrix]

I'm curious to know how many people use FreeBSD at all.

[rtfazeberdee]

my guess would be about 3 systemd haters. )

[dangerousHobo]

It powers Netflix, WhatsApp, and countless others..... We've seen an increase in interest, contributions, and donations(largest being from WhatsApp) over the last few years, not remotely close to being dead....

[starshipeleven]

Also FreeNAS is FreeBSD, and that's also going strong.

Although I doubt there are any significant desktop installations of FreeBSD.

[groharpon42]

I'm curious to know how many people use FreeBSD at all.

It seems that OSX and the PS4 OS are based on some parts of FreeBSD. So, indirectly, quite a lot of people...

http://doc.dl.playstation.net/doc/ps4-oss/

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Porting/Conceptual/PortingUnix/background/background.html

[Veerappan]

Count me among the FreeNAS users, which implies FreeBSD. I don't do GUI stuff on it, but it makes a really nice system to run a home file server on (3 drive raid-z w/ periodic external backups).

[Guest]

But isn't BSD d-e-a..... oh, wait, nobody is using that "joke" anymore either.

It's dead, so joking aside.