THIS POST NOW IS MOOT, CAUSE DA WORKS GREAT UNDER FREEBSD 7.2 64 BIT, I INSTALLED IT WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM.
KUDOS TO DA STAFF.
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I know these questions have been asked in other places, and receive flack from others as it apparently is considered impatient, or rude or seen as bitching to ask these questions.
But I am a customer and would like to know where I stand as a Freebsd customer of a (formerly...) great control panel on freebsd.
I say formerly, because even though it is still great on older versions of freebsd, it is trouble for those who try it on current stable versions of freebsd (7.1). The beauty of freebsd is the port system (amongs other things) and ofcourse the focus on stability and security.
After I made a choice for freebsd, only after that did I chose DA because it ran well on freebsd.
On these forums we now see freebsd users trying out things on there own, with very very minimal interaction of DA support.
Even though it is great to see users helping each other, DA is not an open source project, and the fact that freebsd users are now starting to share ways to get DA working under 7.1 64 bit, even while freebsd 7.1 is out long already, is worrying me a bit.
Someone once told me that you can judge people's intent by their actions.
Looking at the lack of action with regards to answering questions or moving forward with freebsd 7.1 64, to me it almost seems that DA is getting ready to ditch freebsd support.
So here are my questions to DirectAdmin Support:
- what is the roadmap, plan for Freebsd support
- when will there be a portbased installation script for DA
- when will freebsd 7.1 64 bit be supported
PLEASE DA, tell us - your CUSTOMERS - what your plans are with freebsd.
And even if you tell us that you are intentionally dropping the ball, even knowing that would already help, because hoping for something that will not come, almost seems cruel.
On september 25th 2008 you said something would soon happen, well we are now february 24th 2009, so that is almost a full 5 months, which seems and definitely feels long. I mean if I tell my customers I will soon have a solution for their trouble, but do not act for 5 months, what are my customers going to say?
I still think the combination DA and freebsd is great, but can it please be a up to date combination?
Thanks DA for taking the time to answer.
Other freebsd users, please kick in and help make DA aware that we are still here, and would definitely love to stay.
And those of you who consider this bitching, it is not meant to be that, I would have advised anyone to use DA on their freebsd servers, and would love to be able to do that once more.
Signed by a concerned customer who loves freebsd, 64 bit hardware and DA.
KUDOS TO DA STAFF.
=============================================
I know these questions have been asked in other places, and receive flack from others as it apparently is considered impatient, or rude or seen as bitching to ask these questions.
But I am a customer and would like to know where I stand as a Freebsd customer of a (formerly...) great control panel on freebsd.
I say formerly, because even though it is still great on older versions of freebsd, it is trouble for those who try it on current stable versions of freebsd (7.1). The beauty of freebsd is the port system (amongs other things) and ofcourse the focus on stability and security.
After I made a choice for freebsd, only after that did I chose DA because it ran well on freebsd.
On these forums we now see freebsd users trying out things on there own, with very very minimal interaction of DA support.
Even though it is great to see users helping each other, DA is not an open source project, and the fact that freebsd users are now starting to share ways to get DA working under 7.1 64 bit, even while freebsd 7.1 is out long already, is worrying me a bit.
Someone once told me that you can judge people's intent by their actions.
Looking at the lack of action with regards to answering questions or moving forward with freebsd 7.1 64, to me it almost seems that DA is getting ready to ditch freebsd support.
So here are my questions to DirectAdmin Support:
- what is the roadmap, plan for Freebsd support
- when will there be a portbased installation script for DA
- when will freebsd 7.1 64 bit be supported
PLEASE DA, tell us - your CUSTOMERS - what your plans are with freebsd.
And even if you tell us that you are intentionally dropping the ball, even knowing that would already help, because hoping for something that will not come, almost seems cruel.
On september 25th 2008 you said something would soon happen, well we are now february 24th 2009, so that is almost a full 5 months, which seems and definitely feels long. I mean if I tell my customers I will soon have a solution for their trouble, but do not act for 5 months, what are my customers going to say?
I still think the combination DA and freebsd is great, but can it please be a up to date combination?
Thanks DA for taking the time to answer.
Other freebsd users, please kick in and help make DA aware that we are still here, and would definitely love to stay.
And those of you who consider this bitching, it is not meant to be that, I would have advised anyone to use DA on their freebsd servers, and would love to be able to do that once more.
Signed by a concerned customer who loves freebsd, 64 bit hardware and DA.
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