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New FreeBSD Book Aimed At Newest Users
Chris Coleman writes: "Annelise Anderson has written a new FreeBSD book titled "FreeBSD: An Open Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer".
The book includes:
* installation CD-ROM for the entire system plus many software applications
* space requirements, screen shots, and detailed instructions for installing FreeBSD
* step-by-step instructions on configuring and running FreeBSD, connecting to the Internet, setting up an internal network, and setting up sound, X Window System (the graphical user interface), and printing." I think the raftload of available books have helped tremendously in making GNU/Linux popular, by first making it possible for non-experts to install it -- with more BSD books, perhaps the same will happen. Fame awaits you if you care to give this book a Slashdot review :)
how the fuck do trolls like this get +2 its just like the pop charts with losers like n-sync getting to #1
mod this troll down!!!
Do Unto Others As You Would Have Others Do Unto You - ONLY HARDER!
Y'raaaass claaaaht !
Not only are you wrong, the alternative is even worse:
If you put Linux next to some other operating systems out there for a cost comparison, the conclusions are devastating for Linux.
Linux costs not only more because of the frequent updates which require new cdrom's to be bought if you don't have a high speed Internet connection.
Another factor in Linux cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously.
Add to this the cost of loss of data. Linux' native file system, EXT2FS, is known to lose data like a firehose loses water, when the file system isn't unmounted properly. Other unix file systems are much more tolerant towards unexpected crashes. An example is the FreeBSD file system, which with soft updates enabled, performance-wise blows EXT2FS out of the water, and doesn't have the negative drawback of extreme data loss in case of a system breakdown.
Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Linux than on other unices. On other unices, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Linux are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally.
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Linux' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of unices, but not one of them is implemented right. A Linux user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
I can go on and on and on, but the message is clear. In this world, there is no place for Linux. It's not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc. The best place it should ever reach is the toy store, and even that would be flattering.
Jesus, this really is low. :)
A troll responding to his own post in an effort to give it credibility.. Way to go dude!
I think the post about Linux cost in this thread says more about Linux than you ever said about FreeBSD. And guess which post I'm going to believe? My company has 10^100 PC's waiting to be converted to a free unix, eat that!
MandrakeSoft's CEO Henri Poole states that there are 70000 users of Linux-Mandrake. How many users of Debian GNU/Linux are there? Let's see. The number of Linux-Mandrake versus GNU/Linux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. The refore there are about 70000/5 = 14000 GNU/Linux users. Slackware posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of GNU/Linux posts. Therefore there are about 7000 users of Slackware. A recent article put RedHat Linux at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (70000+14000+7000)*4 = 364000 RedHat Linux users. This is consistent with the number of RedHat Linux Usenet posts.
Now Linux companies are consolidating, overhauling their business plans, laying off staff, scaling back expansion plans and pushing back profitability schedules. "It would seem there are too many distributions for the market to bear," said Gartner analyst Tom Henkel. (http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,269 5638,00.html)
Red Hat, Inc., the leader in developing deploying and managing open source linux solutions, announced on a reported basis, a net loss of $24.2 million. (http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-0 3-22-010-20-PS)
Turbolinux, based in Brisbane, Calif., a Linux-based software provider has withdrawn a $60 million initial public offering "in light of current market conditions." (http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010320/n20215287_2.html) (http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/03/20/deals/ipo/)
Clayton-based Linuxgruven.com, a Linux training and service company with 106 employees, laid off 100 employees (http://stlouis.bcentral.com/stlouis/stories/2001/ 03/05/daily41.html)
Lineo withdrew its initial public offering in January. Caldera Systems delayed the acquisition of Santa Cruz Operations' Unix software by a quarter. Linuxcare laid off dozens in February, with Linuxcare co-founders Dave Sifry and Dave LaDuke are among those departing. VA Linux Systems cut 114 people in February and delayed its expected profitability by nine months. (http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,269 5638,00.html)
Due to the troubles of Corel, abysmal sales and so on, Corel Linux is going out of business and was nearly taken over by Microsoft who sell another troubled OS. Owing to the GPL, SuSE is laying off almost all of its US staff. Major marketing surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Even LinuxWorld.com shut down "because of the economy and everything else" (http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/03/13/ 1720254&mode=nocomment)
Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyists (i.e. those who dabble with Minix, Xinu, etc). Linux continues to falter. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
You really have to wonder what it is that motivates these spammers. If BSD is just a quaint, antiquated, irrelevant OS, why do they get so angry when something interesting happens in the BSD world?
Thanks for all the info. I've been looking into migrating some of our applications to a UNIX platform, and had heard good things about the speed and stability of the *BSDs, but after seeing this I'm definitely going to reconsider. I'd really not like to go with a commercial UNIX vendor, so maybe Linux will be the way to go. Thanks again!
Hahahaha. Good, honest, and Christians, all in the same sentence. I like that!! Hahahaha!
The press is a lot like these sorts of jerks. If they want to assassinate someone politically, they have a poll or a survey done that shows that a vast majority are against whomever the press doesn't like.
Excuse me Mr. Moderator... how can I be redundant? check the (#) after the date, mine says 2... I was the first to post this for this thread. #1 was a FP!... Mod this up, and learn how to moderate!
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Random, useless fact: I type in startx entirely with my left hand.
What is wrong with these moderators. This ranks as 100% troll, or the second stupidest thin ever said on Slashdot.
I can't rememeber the first. Can you?
I, for one, am glad to see that more effort is being put into initiating new members into the "fold", so to speak. The sheer volume of information that needs to be assimilated just to get a version of BSD/Linux installed is enormous to the average user.
Cause I ain't Jewish means BSD is too much information? I would expect this statement from a techno Jew like yourself.
Just because I'm only a level 2 tech support rocker, don't mean Jew stuff is more complicated than my thoughts. Shit...
I've always said that one of the biggest problems with the BSD/Linux community was the high level-of-entry that was required. I mean, just to start into a text-only operating system is intimidating enough, but trying to decode cryptic interfaces and even more cryptic man pages is often too much for John Q Computer User.
Just cause we can't read Hebrew don't mean we can read computer books! Now, I know you Jews can read good, especially cryptic stuff, but that don't mean nothing.
I ain't got a problem with Jews and all... I know some of them are pretty cool, but it would be nice if you guys didn't talk down to the rest of us because we're from the south and are non-jews.
Shout out for my bro, Drugs Delaney!!! What's up Drugs??? Kicking that bong!!! Hell yeah!!! That was kool...
Slashdot could use FreeBSD so they won't be down as they just were?
C'mon Taco! We want the truth! What happened?
hot damn
Slashdot was down! For a brief few minutes I just didn't know what to do with myself.
At last, a nigga rappin' bout blunts and broads, tits and bras, menages a trois, sex in expensive cars, I still leave you on the pavement, condo paid for, no car payment, at my arraignment, note for the plaintiff: "Your daughter's tied up in a Brooklyn basement." Face it, not guilty, that's how I stay filthy. Richer than Richie, till you niggas come and get me.
Custer's Revenge: The greatest video
slashdot down.... so cold...
/. is like an essential service.
am i the only one who just sat their reloading the page over and over again not noing what i would do?
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you're counting 'friendly' and 'introduction' as buzzwords? do you go around yelling 'bingo' all day?
Find any instance in the bible that describes hell as hot, and says people, their souls, whatever will end up there for punishment.
You cannot because the bible never describes hell this way.