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Submersible Robot Diesel Recycles Its Exhaust
An Anonymous Coward writes: "This might be a good weekend topic to kick around. Trends in Japan has a short article on an undersea robot that uses a contained diesel. 'The engine itself is a completely closed system that needs no intake of air to run and chemically processes exhaust gas inside the robot. On-board devices reinfuse the exhaust with oxygen after removing its carbon dioxide and reuse the gas in the fuel mixture. The seawater is kept clean, as no gas is released.' Any /.'s working with this tech? Can it be applied to low emission vehicles?"
Yet nother crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD
community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for
less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of
the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more
market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along.
*BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by
failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin
comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a
Kreskin to predict
*BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak
future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because
*BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many
of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink
flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader
Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD
are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet
is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400
NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of
NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent
article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore
there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with
the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut
Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was
taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead,
its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys
show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick
nd its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to
survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues
to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in
time. For ll practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BS is dying
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that article is five years old. This site is just a fucking excuse for a flamewar or trollfest. Anyone who takes this slop pail seriously is a fucking nerdy faggot.
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