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Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.osvi ews.com Apple's modified version is not the responsibility of the original BSD developers.

... leeeeearn...
...to cooooode...

:-D

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/18/diebo ld_among_sites_still_running_windows_nt4.html

According to this article, diebold is still running windows nt 4 internally. This is scary because because microsoft is scheduled to stop releasing all hotfixes for nt 4 on december 31st of this year. What does it say about the security of our election if the driving company behind the election machines has no clear upgrade path for their internal software? Does it imply that products they release may be released on unsupported, buggy platforms?

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD :-D

It's sooo nice to see people make big efforts to prove a fake point, and then push them back with one line of truth. :-)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD
P.S. Windows is lame (agreed), but you're not a windows user.

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

look... a cute little singer, too! :-D

(oh, please... learn to spell "revival". I hate ignorant trolls.)

... cute little poet. :-D

Go back to play with linux, cute little kid! :-D

a) FreeBSD is Berkeley Unix, Linux is a Unix-clone. They look similar to the average user, but deep inside they're two quite different things.

b) the media tend to identify Open Source OS's with Linux because of the community hype - GNU & Linux are about politics as well, thus they attract a wider range of people. BSD is a purely technical and academical thing. These different commitments are well reflected in the 2 licenses: BSD (much simpler and less restrictive) and GPL (an anti-proprietary political manifesto).

c) FreeBSD is quite widely used and, notwithstanding the lack of hype, its user base is growing pretty fast.

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

Yeah... and these weird people also think it's more reliable than linux! Go figure. :-)

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

And according to Netcraft, it's doing not so badly either.
It would be interestering (but even further offtopic) to find out why they made the move this past April to FEMA.
Why not the Department of Homeland Security? or the Secret Service? Why does FEMA get to host the PR website for the Whitehouse?

If I may, I'd suggest to wait for him to provide proof of the BS he's uttering, and in the meantime, just to leave him in his misery, since every argumentative answer will just (ehm... you know) feed the troll. On the other hand, I think insults are ok. :-)
Thank you for your eventual attention.

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

No much would happen to the ./ servers but on the other hand get a few mates over to www.prosco.com and see what happens.!
Netcraft . Windows 2000 and IIS
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.pros co.com

Why is this site running on Windows 2000 and IIS ?
Seems kind of strange given they are supposed to be a *NIX company.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.pros co.com

it should be easy for them to get this going according to netcraft

But you may not hear from them for awhile this is from the front page now.

We apologize for the tardiness of any VolcanoCam web page updates. Please understand our first priority is making sure the VolcanoCam continues to operate. We are inundated with phone calls and emails, as well as performing our normal web updates.

Netcraft confirms it...

Use this to spew: netcraft
That, and watch your inbox for a few days.

The remark about MS patches is just blatant flamebait. Never mind that PayPal runs Linux.

netcraft

Sorry to break this up to you kid, this stuff is for grown-ups. Go back to play with linux. :)

Anyway, the poor kid is very, very ill. I really don't know what I can do to help him to recover.

Anyway, the poor kid is very, very ill. I really don't know what I can do to help him to recover.

:-D

doesn't or shouldn't use the url security. Every .net site I have worked on does explicit check on each page that needs to limit access. Also there is a fix for the problem, it is call windows 2003.

Oh yeah, Tom, that's some high security operation you have there. I'm sure you know exactly what's running on those "servers" and have not been owned by any of the 5,000 or so new worms born for it each month. Considering that you hire people who "can't ... find [intelligent life] in the mirror in the morning" to run said junk, the taxpayers know how zealously you are looking after their resources. The poor guy obviously did not find intelligence in upper management. Nice work, you have your 15 seconds of infamy.

Next time, earn your employee's loyalty by sweeping the thing under the rug. Say something nice like, "Holy crap, if my overseer/master/boss sees this, we'll both be canned. We'll take it off and forget it ever happened, OK?" What on Earth gave you the idea to make your former employee, yourself and your organization a laughing stock by telling a reporter what happened?

Yeah, he wanted to prove how clever he was to waste everyone's time by hiring someone stupid. I'm afraid that this is definitive proof that Hayes is incompetent and that incompetents in general don't know how bad they are at things. We can assume much else about the workings of his office. Yep, Windoze, what a dumb fuck. Nothing but the best waste of taxpayer money there.

Sooner or later, he's going to figure out that the "standard" non free software he's using on that "server" is:

1. filled with spyware
2. filled with malware
3. owned by spammers and porn masters

He'll notice it as CNN and the other ways he spends his time run slower and slower. Then he will wish that he had someone to help him fix it and SETI to blame. At least with SETI, he knew what he was running

The truth is, /. should not allow AC posters. It only gives trolls like this the opportunity to pollute the pleasant & technical BSD discussions with this kind of crap.

What's more disgusting, I think this moron, who's defaming both FreeBSD & DragonFlyBSD developers at the same time, has an agenda. I bet he's the good-old GNU zealot we all know, throwing sh*t at BSD as usual - it has happened for a looong time on this board.

Maybe you're right, he's really starting with a new "campaign". Because the old one, you know, wasn't really that successful. :-D

According to netcraft, it's Server 2003/IIS 6.0. Though that shouldn't be a surprise.

North Korea uses FreeBSD

FreeBSD may be "dying" if by dying you mean not gaining very many new users. None the less, even if it is dying, that does not deny it of currently running quite a few servers including Yahoo and many more.

FreeBSD by the way is gaining more users, just at a slower pace than linux. Take a look here[netcraft.com]

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.geic o.com

Looks like some enterprise sites are still running it.
Although, they are the low cost provider.
I should know........

Gecko

No. Linux.

Not according to Netcraft

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.xyzc omputing.com

aww...well...maybe the next /.ed server will be a Windows machine.

FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE is an eagerly awaited release in the BSD world (and in the OS world as well, I dare say. Here's why). Posting a concise message every time a new Beta (or RC) is out is, IMHO, the proper way to let /. BSD readers know that it's out there, and you can play with it, or (better) test it, or (sooo much better) help the developers fix the bugs. I really fail to see how this can be bothersome. After all, I guess it's in the interest of every reader of /. BSD section that this important release be as good as possible.

What do you expect from the company that brings us: Vagisil, Grecian 5 and AquaVelva. Their marketing team is probably seeking any marketing avenues they can find, and exploiting eWeek is just another outlet.

Personally, I will never put Vagisil in my butthole ever again - just out of principle!

From now on, I'm switching to Tampax for my Diarreahal emergencies. At least Proctor and Gamble has it right by running their website on *nix).

It's clear they are very familiar with mission critical operations - and as such, they have earned my business (they've had my girlfriend's for almost a decade!)

This is the puppy`mentioned in the second page: www.mthigh.com.
"No uptime is currently available for www.mthigh.com". Awwww - shame :)

Wow. The article really gives a whole new meaning to FUD.

two companies that have completed the switch from Linux back to Windows cited recently.

Personal care products maker Combe Inc., of White Plains, N.Y., developed and administered its Web sites with an ISP running a Linux-Oracle platform about nine years ago and started the switch back to Windows two years ago.

I guess 2 years ago is recent... but it gets worse...

"There was a limit set up within the program that said you can only order 'x' amount of products within one transaction," Roy said. "When one of our guests went over the limit, it crashed the whole store. We then had to manually identify the erroneous credit card charges."

Um. Is it me or does that sound like it has nothing to do with the operating system?

I'd guess this is the second company See how cool and uber their website is now? Many of the categories in their "shop" are just empty, and transactions have been limited to 20 of any one item. So, I ordered 20 of everything....

Opps! An error has occured on the site. If this problem persists, please contact the site administrator.

If you are getting this error at CHECKOUT, please check your Order History to see if the order went through before trying to place the order again.

If the order went through, we have successfully recorded your purchase although you will not receive a confirmation letter with liability release. Please download a hard copy by clicking here.

Phew. Good job its running on Windows now!

What is their uptime? Oh. 8 days.

• Combe believed the only database to use for their web applications was Oracle.
  
• They contacted a provider to set them up with an oracle server, which was only available on Linux.
  
• The vendor then went out of business, and instead of finding a vendor with Linux/Oracle experience they went with a "Microsoft Certified Partner" who for some reason told them that the "only" solution was to migrate to Windows 2k3/IIS6 and SQL Server 2k.
  
• Windows server 2k3 has worked out great for them for the last two years, especially since it appears they have only been running it on their e-commerce site since September 14th according to netcraft. (Unless I'm reading the chart incorrectly, which I might be. The "last changed" column is slightly misleading).

• "The decision to go with Linux was a cost-based one," Michele Roy, the resort's chief financial officer, told eWEEK. "We had not budgeted the e-commerce system setup in that year's business plan."
  • "The Linux system could not handle the layers of information needed for internal control of the resort."
    
  • Roy also had concerns about the security and reliability of the system [that had no budget for setup].
    
  • "There was a limit set up within the program that said you can only order 'x' amount of products within one transaction," Roy said. "When one of our guests went over the limit, it crashed the whole store. We then had to manually identify the erroneous credit card charges."
  Now, that last item is the kicker. I don't care if you are running your site on $500,000 IBM servers-of-doom running NASA tested software that is Guaranteed 100% bug-free. If you design any kind of commerce site which not only crashes when someone orders too many products, but brings down the rest of the server AND makes erroneous credit card charges to multiple accounts.... You need to behead your programming team.
  
  And now, one final bit of the article put here just for humor:
  

  The biggest challenges are those customers moving from Unix to Linux, who "don't want to rewrite their applications, and most of their staff only know Java.

  
  

I wanted an actual domain and have been a happy camper with zoneedit for over a year (notwithstanding their revolting choice of OS).

I run a very reliable (see netcraft result) web-server that I can and do happily ignore for long stretches of time.

While I'm stuck working part time as a programmer to pay the bills (a nice gig that allows me to make my own hours while I'm going to school), I've got a web-site that is beginning to show promise as a way to get a decent amount of residual income. The sections that bring in the most revenue are the sections I havn't touched in months. So it's not something I must do constantly.

I'm also making money on the stock market. I'm not getting rich yet, I'm young enough to do proof of concept and risk hundreds of dollars to learn. Once I get financially situated in a real job then I can drop more money on the market to try to increase that income stream.

And when I get out of school, I'll be a high school math teacher making me as free from computers as I want to be. It'll be a hobby and a teaching tool (math demonstration scripts, class sessions in MP3 format, notes, homework assignments, etc) but not a necessity. It's the not being a necessity part that keeps programming interesting.

The trick is to either maximize residual income (so you can work less at a real job) or focus on shifting careers to something that doesn't require a computer constantly.

It's just a matter of figuring out where you want to be and figuring out how to get there.

I don't want to spend my life in front of a computer so I'm not going to.

Ben

The answer is here: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.mv.s tate.co.us

You'll see a Solaris there. Occasionally. I don't think I've ever seen a Linux. It's exclusively BSD/OS and FreeBSD most of the time.

The reason why is explained on the site, particularly the FAQ entry why don't some operating systems show an uptime above 497 days?. Another choice quote from the FAQ: "HP-UX, Linux, NetApp NetCache, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days, exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at that precise point. Thus it is not possible to see a HP-UX, Linux or Solaris system with an uptime measurement above 497 days." I think you'd likely see a fairly good distribution of different operating systems, including the BSDs and Linuxes (Linices?), if this 497 day limitation weren't there.