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Setting Up NetSaint On FreeBSD
questionlp writes: "Dan Langille (of FreeBSD Diary has just posted a very nicely detailed article on setting up NetSaint on a FreeBSD machine (via the Ports collection, of course) to do extensive network monitoring." I wish more documentation was this lucid.
Evans Data study announces that BSD is one of the most popular embedded operating systems.
Evans Data Corporation, a market research company focused on the software development community, announced in their mbedded Systems Developer Survey that BSD Unix will grow to be the #5 most popular embedded operating system in 2002 -- up from this year, when BSD did not even appear on the chart. Wasabi Systems is a developer of NetBSD, the number one BSD operating system in the embedded market space.
Embedded operating systems are used in products where computers aren't visible to the end-user, such as consumer electronics (PDAs, cell phones), household appliances, and higher-end products such as Internet boxes and servers.
The Evans report surveyed 500 embedded systems developers to study multiple aspects of embedded systems' development, including hardware and software platforms, Linux, Java and open source software, types of applications, embedded databases and development tools. Developers indicated that open source code, royalty-free licensing and a large community of knowledgeable developers were cited as key benefits.
Evans Data Corporation provides custom quantitative and qualitative research, as well as subscriptions to the North American Developer Survey, the International Developer Survey, the Enterprise Development Management Issues survey series, the Linux Developer series, the Database Developer Survey, the Wireless Developer Survey and the Embedded Systems Developer Survey.
The truth is out and you can't hide it any more. *BSD is thriving.
I try.
There are other items under NetSaint I'd like to follow, but I haven't explored those items yet.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit th beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of ll 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 yet 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.
*BSD is dying