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FreeBSD 5.0 Delayed One Year

Satai writes: "FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE has been delayed a full year, until November of 2002. The reasons included a lack of support for SMPng - including a developer fall-off ratio of 15 to 1 - a desire to finish the PowerPC/Sparc64/IA64 architectures, and a general desire to robustly test the additions. The economic downturn even makes an appearance in the announcement."

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  1. Here's what I think: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
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  3. B - S - D - E - A -D by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Remember:
    *BSD is dead.
    *BS is dad
    *BSD is dead
  4. BSD is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    S&#68 isfini. Say `by-ye; BS'

  5. It is dying - BSD is on the way out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    The IT industry is well ware of the sinking numbers for *BSD. Take a look at the latest Netcraft survey for some facts about more loss of *BSD market share. Quite frankly, the IBM CEO has as much as said *BSD is dead. He knows.

    And pleaseremember, yet another 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 on the tail of 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. It's dead, Jim.

  6. *BSD is Dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant


    Thank you for stating the obvious. *BSD is indeed dying. 'Nuff said.