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Comments · 13

  1. SCO is dying by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 1 · on SCO Assets Going To October Auction

    This begs for a "SCO is dying" post.

  2. Plan* is dying by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Plan 9 Running on Blue Gene

    There are about 50 active posters to the 9fans mailing list.
    There were about 30 people attending the International Plan9 Symposium in Madrid last year (of which I was one). So how does that compare with *BSD?
  3. Re:Netcraft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Future of NetBSD

    Here we are, a link to the original anti-troll. The "BSD is dying" trolls started "dying" shortly after this was posted. An earlier attempt called BSD is dying is dying was also quite amusing, but didn't have as far-reaching effects.

  4. is it just me.... by revery · · Score: 2, Informative · on OpenBSD Activism Shows Drivers Can Be Freed

    or has BSD been getting a heck of a lot of stories on the main page lately

    It's like they haven't been listening to the trolls at all

    --

    I write stuff, but not that well and not that often...

  5. Re:rule 1 by EugeneK · · Score: -1, Troll · on Programming Assignment Guide For CS Students
    MIRROR

    Oh, and PS :


    FUCK BUSH and GET OUT OF IRAQ.


    Thank you.

    That is all.

  6. Linux is alive and well... by mrogers · · Score: 1 · on MS To Offer Windows Sans WMP, If EU So Orders

    ...BSD, on the other hand, is dying.

  7. Re:What was it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Green Energy From Manhattan's East River
    I've seen a lot of green stuff in that river, but I didn't think it was energy.

    This is most likely what you saw
  8. Re:* is dying trolls by JamieF · · Score: 0, Troll · on Microsoft Proclaims Death of Free Software Model

    First they ignore you.
    Then you're dying.
    Then you're beleaguered.
    Then you stay beleaguered.

  9. I was first fuckwad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Putting Novell's SuSE Purchase In Perspective

    Suck it down

  10. Re:This is offtopic, but I have to ask by pyrrhonist · · Score: 3, Informative · on Wind River To Stop Selling BSD/OS
    I don't get it, please, someone enlighten me.

    This is a running joke that has been going on for a very long time. BSD's imminent death has been greatly exaggerated more than once, and this joke is poking fun at that fact.
    On Slashdot, this has evolved into a troll, which you can find information about in quite a few places.

    Everything2 has some general information on "BSD is dying".

    Wikipedia has this to say about BSD is dying:

    *BSD is dying
    Quite frequently (especially for BSD-related stories) a comment will be posted providing dubious statistics and many links detailing the forthcoming death of the BSD operating system. With its bogus statistics and inflammatory language the original "*BSD is dying" troll was enormously successful, and was still guaranteed to generate responses years after it first appeared. Unsurprisingly many variants of this troll were created: Slashdot/VA Linux/Linux/Beos/Apple is dying. None were as successful as the original.
    These sites claim that "BSD is dying" is purely a Slashdot trolling phenomenom.

    I'm not convinced that this is the case, however, because there are some earlier examples of this joke (not the troll necessarily, but off-color remarks).
    The earliest reference I can find was in 1992, and may be one explaniation of the phenomenom: Responses to survey on the death of BSD
    There was an article in an online magazine in 1999 that said some disparaging things about BSD's license that may have something to do with phenomenom.
    I could not find the article, but it is mentioned here: Debian wants to use FreeBSD kernel

    There is also a * is dying page.

  11. NETCRAFT REPORTS by pb · · Score: 0 · on Nearly 2 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

    * IS DYING (including BSD and NETCRAFT)

  12. Re:Yahoo -- Overture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Yahoo Buys Overture for $1.63 Billion

    I hope you are entertained

  13. KDE Switch Campaign? by EugeneK · · Score: 5, Funny · on What To Expect From KDE 3.1
    Apparently this is a new KDE marketing campaign about a *REAL* Gnome user who switched. They seem to have taken it down; luckily I saved a copy!!

    Gnome to KDE: Mission Accomplished, Convert Thrilled