Slashdot Mirror

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

actually, slashdot has a rank of 35

Actually, slashdot is at number 35.

I was shocked to know that there was a domain out there that I have never visited yet it's the fifth most popular out there.

I was shocked to know that there was a domain out there that I have never visited yet it's the fifth most popular out there.

According to Netcraft, the rank of MySpace.com is only 76.

Number 1 is -- of course -- Google. Slashdot has rank 587.

According to Netcraft, the rank of MySpace.com is only 76.

Number 1 is -- of course -- Google. Slashdot has rank 587.

According to Netcraft, the rank of MySpace.com is only 76.

Number 1 is -- of course -- Google. Slashdot has rank 587.

that's down from 19 sites a year ago, so the numbers are in and Netcraft has confirmed, OS/2 is dying proof here I'm sad, I did Pascal and Foxpro development on OS/2 for construction estimating and scheduling.

as of last year, it was pretty dead as far as internet site serving, stats here . 10 whole sites!

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

What does netcraft say?

Funny that:

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.flexbeta.net

OS: Linux
Webserver: Apache 1.3.33

I use XP at work, my box is up for about 20 days now

These guys have been up since before XP was released. I'll bet there are lots of non-public facing boxes which have been up even longer.

NetCraft (http://toolbar.netcraft.com/) is pretty useful. You can get an instant site report for any page you visit, as well as information on the geographic location, IP block owner and phishing risk rating. Before you laugh about the phishing risk rating, one of my co-workers, who used to work for an ISP and thinks he's l33t, got saved by it once.

Heh. I had a box recently where I had to update a configuration file, and when I did a PS to get the PID to send a HUP, I noticed it was sitting at simething like 10,000 minutes of CPU time. Which woried me at first, until I noticed that the process had been running since Aug03. OK, that's more reasonable.

I haven't managed to have a box stay up as long as some of the ones at the top of the Netcraft runtime ratings. Even with UPSes, you get occasional long power outages. But really, "I'll finally have a reason to reboot the OS after 3 years" is a better taunt. :)

...the market share was 45% Linux, 45% Mac, 10% Windows, the Windows users would be the "cool" hacker group making fun of those linux/Max "newbies" who have to deal will so many viruses/adware/security violations every day.

Just like those uber-cool IIS operators make fun of those daft Apache admins, having to put up with all the attacks on the Web's Most Popular Web-Server?

Disclaimer: I *use* Windows. I also use Solaris, Linux and BSD. They're all good - and bad - in certain areas. Unfortunately Windows' area of "badness" is security.

Oh really?

Karl, is that you.

But how long? Just as long as it takes for the thefts to occur.

For the http/20% space, please see netcraft.com.

For the nearly 100% of all CC theft, just netcraft all the ones that you know of. How about T-Mobile?
Not to your liking? Well, lets try, the recent 40 Millions CC recently stolen

Or how about the small 8 millions cards that was done in 2003?

Well, we could go on, but these are nice visible ones.


BTW, do you have any links where CCs were stolen and were NOT Windows/IIS? The last one that I saw was Playboy around 2000 (unpatched solaris).

Karl, is that you.

But how long? Just as long as it takes for the thefts to occur.

For the http/20% space, please see netcraft.com.

For the nearly 100% of all CC theft, just netcraft all the ones that you know of. How about T-Mobile?
Not to your liking? Well, lets try, the recent 40 Millions CC recently stolen

Or how about the small 8 millions cards that was done in 2003?

Well, we could go on, but these are nice visible ones.


BTW, do you have any links where CCs were stolen and were NOT Windows/IIS? The last one that I saw was Playboy around 2000 (unpatched solaris).

Karl, is that you.

But how long? Just as long as it takes for the thefts to occur.

For the http/20% space, please see netcraft.com.

For the nearly 100% of all CC theft, just netcraft all the ones that you know of. How about T-Mobile?
Not to your liking? Well, lets try, the recent 40 Millions CC recently stolen

Or how about the small 8 millions cards that was done in 2003?

Well, we could go on, but these are nice visible ones.


BTW, do you have any links where CCs were stolen and were NOT Windows/IIS? The last one that I saw was Playboy around 2000 (unpatched solaris).

I for one can't wait until OSS solutions provide the most popular webserver or run on the fastest computer.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

The two survey different sets of sites, so it's not unexpected to see some differences between the two. It's just "noise" .. on the whole they should reveal the same trends. Both reveal a strong and continuing long-term growth of Apache, and both reveal that IIS's share of the market has been more or less stagnant for some years now - seemingly stuck at around 25%, with a few ups and downs here and there, but not going anywhere - in fact declining very slightly.

Because the total number of servers is growing so quickly, IIS can still present the stats in a way that appears to show strong growth, because 25% of a rapidly increasing number is also a rapidly increasing number. It's just that that 25% figure is not really getting higher.

I'm surprised Microsoft doesn't seem that worried about their stagnation in the web server market (in % share not absolute sales numbers). I guess IIS just doesn't offer enough additional 'marginal utility' over Apache to justify the extra cost. However it's interesting to think that Microsoft would most probably gain a huge additional percentage of market share if they dropped their server prices, by, say, 50% - they'd still be making profit just off the existing sales, and they'd be making even more because of the greater economies of scale from simply selling more. And a higher percentage market share is strategically important - so why don't they?

The standard for Internet based systems that need long uptime and robustness is GNU/Linux.

Really? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

Apache doesn't use the GPL and last time I checked IIS was losing group to Apache.

> For all those g00bers who think it is dead,

??
I have to ask. *Who* thinks that?
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."

> why dont you work on the security holes in Linux before Linux gets in real 'patch hell' trouble.

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

Web-based apps are big, but not for Microsoft. Microsoft has what, about 20% market share for web servers? There is just no way they can compete in this space when everyone else can use Linux/Apache, which is a lot cheaper than Windows/IIS.

Wikipedia has NOWHERE NEAR the readership the Times does

Are you sure about that? Alexa's ranking puts Wikipedia at number 41, while latimes.com isn't even in the top 100. Netcraft somewhat confirms it, giving en.wikipedia.org a site rank of 122 and 894 to www.latimes.com. Wikipedia's probably more popular than you think.

Windows seems to be responsible for that 40 million credit card breach:

posted originally at groklaw:

All of the marketing hype in the world cannot make Micro$oft a better system
http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&boa rd=1600684464&tid=cald
&sid=1600684464&mid=274625
A Tucson Arizona credit card processor has been implicated in a security breach
which resulted in fraudlent charges and the exposure of 40 MM accounts.
CardSystems Solutions has helpfully posted a Computer Operator job listing. This
makes it clear that the system breached was running M$ OS.
www.cardsystems.com/careers/ComputerOperator_ 0410. pdf
A seperate database developer job posting has a VBScript experience requirement,
leading to the presumption that VBScripts were at the heart of the card
processors data management.
A quality assurance job posting required experience in Windows NT and Windows
2000. Using these obsolete systems was part of the innovative "security
through obscurity" policy of the part of the card processors.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/netblock?q=UU-63-83-95 ,63.83.95.0,63.83.95.255
3330975
www.cardsystems.com
CardSystems Solutions, Inc., 6390 East Broadway, Tucson, 85710, United
States April 1997
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Windows 2000

Mastercard is running Apache on Solaris
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /mastercard.com
Mastercard International
2200 MasterCard Blvd OFallon MO US 63366
Solaris 8 Apache/1.3.27 Unix mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.7
mod_perl/1.27 29-Jul-2003

Was Mastercard to blame running a decent OS
Or was CardSystems to blame for running Micro$oft crapware.

Windows seems to be responsible for that 40 million credit card breach:

posted originally at groklaw:

All of the marketing hype in the world cannot make Micro$oft a better system
http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&boa rd=1600684464&tid=cald
&sid=1600684464&mid=274625
A Tucson Arizona credit card processor has been implicated in a security breach
which resulted in fraudlent charges and the exposure of 40 MM accounts.
CardSystems Solutions has helpfully posted a Computer Operator job listing. This
makes it clear that the system breached was running M$ OS.
www.cardsystems.com/careers/ComputerOperator_ 0410. pdf
A seperate database developer job posting has a VBScript experience requirement,
leading to the presumption that VBScripts were at the heart of the card
processors data management.
A quality assurance job posting required experience in Windows NT and Windows
2000. Using these obsolete systems was part of the innovative "security
through obscurity" policy of the part of the card processors.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/netblock?q=UU-63-83-95 ,63.83.95.0,63.83.95.255
3330975
www.cardsystems.com
CardSystems Solutions, Inc., 6390 East Broadway, Tucson, 85710, United
States April 1997
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Windows 2000

Mastercard is running Apache on Solaris
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /mastercard.com
Mastercard International
2200 MasterCard Blvd OFallon MO US 63366
Solaris 8 Apache/1.3.27 Unix mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.7
mod_perl/1.27 29-Jul-2003

Was Mastercard to blame running a decent OS
Or was CardSystems to blame for running Micro$oft crapware.

"ONLY front end"? These idiots at CardSystems Solutions put insecure Microsoft software at the front end and expect that this concept is secure. My grandmother could have told them that every component has the be secure, in particular the front end, not just the back end. When will they learn? When will they pay the price? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.cards ystems.com

Ooops, sorry, cut-and-paste missed a line. Here, look for yourself: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.cardsystems.com

From news.netcraft.com, whatever that is....http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/06/18 /lax_security_cited_in_massive_credit_card_data_th eft.html/

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2 F%2Fcardsystems.com%2F

Netcaft Confirms it! The server that served up those vitriolic words is apache running on linux boxen.

www.forbes.com 63.240.4.179 Linux Apache/1.3.26

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /forbes.com

Forbes: How are you gentlemen. All your linux is for Losers.

Slashdot: Main screen turn on -
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.forbes.com

Linux: You have no chance to survive, make you time. HA HA HA!

Maybe I'm playing the devil's advocate but yellowtab.com is running Linux

Does it mean that ZETA is targetted to desktop only or they couldn't get Apache to compile ?

Even some open source software runs so poorly on BSD that it's not worth using -- like MySQL

Not worth using? I've been using FreeBSD with Apache, MySQL and PHP on my webserver without any problems.

At a job I held in college, I set up a network with FreeBSD and a database-driver website that used PHP+MySQL. This website received significant amount of traffic and ran without any problems.

*Some* software may run poorly, but MySQL is not one of them. It may not run as well on *BSD as on Linux, but it does run (and runs pretty well on some *BSD's).

Check this out.

It all comes down to what you want... if you want a good server, then maybe you want FreeBSD.

But in general, I agree with your point - Linux is much more widely used and hence has better support as a general purpose OS.

I wrote:
FreeBSD is used on web servers much more than any Linux distro (2.5 million active sites, against 1.6 million of Red Hat). And from Netcraft numbers (June 2004), FreeBSD had a 25% increase in the last year.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearl y_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedor a_makes_rapid_progress.html

CI replied:
Ha ha. Very funny. You know, it has been nearly a decade since you needed a really good OS to serve websites, right?

??
Even a kid from his parents' basement can "serve websites". Of course, Yahoo's requirements are *a bit* different..
Quoting from the Netcraft link:
"FreeBSD has been synonymous with large scale shared hosting since the genesis of the web, and continues a symbiotic relationship with the largest hosting companies today."

To sum it up, yes, they pretty much "need a really good OS". Quite obviously..

The only thing that makes me sad is that the cluelessness of that statement brings an end to the flamefest.
Goodbye, CI! It was wonderful while it lasted.. :'(

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Requiem for the FUD

I wrote:
FreeBSD is used on web servers much more than any Linux distro (2.5 million active sites, against 1.6 million of Red Hat). And from Netcraft numbers (June 2004), FreeBSD had a 25% increase in the last year.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearl y_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedor a_makes_rapid_progress.html

CI replied:
Ha ha. Very funny. You know, it has been nearly a decade since you needed a really good OS to serve websites, right?

??
Even a kid from his parents' basement can "serve websites". Of course, Yahoo's requirements are *a bit* different..
Quoting from the Netcraft link:
"FreeBSD has been synonymous with large scale shared hosting since the genesis of the web, and continues a symbiotic relationship with the largest hosting companies today."

To sum it up, yes, they pretty much "need a really good OS". Quite obviously..

The only thing that makes me sad is that the cluelessness of that statement brings an end to the flamefest.
Goodbye, CI! It was wonderful while it lasted.. :'(

--
Requiem for the FUD

I wrote:
FreeBSD is used on web servers much more than any Linux distro (2.5 million active sites, against 1.6 million of Red Hat). And from Netcraft numbers (June 2004), FreeBSD had a 25% increase in the last year.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearl y_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedor a_makes_rapid_progress.html

CI replied:
Ha ha. Very funny. You know, it has been nearly a decade since you needed a really good OS to serve websites, right?

??
Even a kid from his parents' basement can "serve websites". Of course, Yahoo's requirements are *a bit* different..
Quoting from the Netcraft link:
"FreeBSD has been synonymous with large scale shared hosting since the genesis of the web, and continues a symbiotic relationship with the largest hosting companies today."

To sum it up, yes, they pretty much "need a really good OS". Quite obviously..

The only thing that makes me sad is that the cluelessness of that statement brings an end to the flamefest.
Goodbye, CI! It was wonderful while it lasted.. :'(

--
Requiem for the FUD

FreeBSD is used on web servers much more than any Linux distro (2.5 million active sites, against 1.6 million of Red Hat). And from Netcraft numbers (June 2004), FreeBSD had a 25% increase in the last year.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearl y_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedor a_makes_rapid_progress.html

FreeBSD is used on web servers much more than any Linux distro (2.5 million active sites, against 1.6 million of Red Hat). And from Netcraft numbers (June 2004), FreeBSD had a 25% increase in the last year.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearl y_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedor a_makes_rapid_progress.html

Btw, it seems that *somebody* is sharing my preference, since FreeBSD is used on web servers much more than any Linux distro (2.5 million active sites, against 1.6 million of Red Hat). And from Netcraft numbers (June 2004), FreeBSD had a 25% increase in the last year.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearl y_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedor a_makes_rapid_progress.html

I know, facts like this one are little known on Slashdot - for a reason, I'm afraid. The same reason why lousy "reviews" like this one get produced by NewsForge and posted on Slashdot (they belong to the same company), and the same reason why in the /. BSD section, in the latest 20+ news items, only 2 (two) are about FreeBSD (the 5.4 release, and this piece of crap), notwithstanding its huge user base.
That alone says that FreeBSD is a strong Linux contender: if it weren't, there would be no point in obscuring it.

Btw this is an observation, it's not a complaint. FreeBSD has already shown that it can thrive even without the hype.

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Requiem for the FUD

Btw, it seems that *somebody* is sharing my preference, since FreeBSD is used on web servers much more than any Linux distro (2.5 million active sites, against 1.6 million of Red Hat). And from Netcraft numbers (June 2004), FreeBSD had a 25% increase in the last year.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearl y_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedor a_makes_rapid_progress.html

I know, facts like this one are little known on Slashdot - for a reason, I'm afraid. The same reason why lousy "reviews" like this one get produced by NewsForge and posted on Slashdot (they belong to the same company), and the same reason why in the /. BSD section, in the latest 20+ news items, only 2 (two) are about FreeBSD (the 5.4 release, and this piece of crap), notwithstanding its huge user base.
That alone says that FreeBSD is a strong Linux contender: if it weren't, there would be no point in obscuring it.

Btw this is an observation, it's not a complaint. FreeBSD has already shown that it can thrive even without the hype.

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Requiem for the FUD

> 'FOSS' has just barely begun making a small dent
> in some Microsoft markets. Or would you care to
> list some?

Ever hear of Apache?