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FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Is Ready
ocipio writes: "The FreeBSD team announced that 4.4-RELEASE is available for download. There are a whole bunch of changes and notes. Please be sure to use a mirror." Those installing for the first time will no doubt find chapter two of the Handbook invaluable.
*BSD is dyin' Yet t'other cripplin' bombshell hit th' beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC cornfirmed thet *BSD accounts fo' less than a frackshun of 1 percent of all sarvers. Comin' on th' heels of th' latess Netcraf' survey which plainly states thet *BSD has lost mo'e market share, this hyar noos sarves t'reinfo'ce whut we've known all along, acco'din' t' th' code o' th' heells! *BSD is collapsin' in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failin' daid last [sysadminmag, acco'din' t' th' code o' th' heells!com] in th' recent Sys Admin comprehensive netwawkin' test. Yo' doesn't need t'be a Krehide [amdest.com] t'predick *BSD's future. Th' han' writin' is on th' wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fack thar won't be enny future at all fo' *BSD on account o' *BSD is dyin'. Thin's is lookin' mighty bad fo' *BSD. As menny of us is already aware, *BSD corntinues t'lose market share. Red ink flows like a rivah of blood, cuss it all t' tarnation. FreeBSD is the dawgoned-est indangered of them all, ah reckon. Less keep t'th' facks an' look at th' numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states thet thar is 7000 users of OpenBSD. How menny users of NetBSD is thar? Less see. Th' number of OpenBSD vahsus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 t'1. Tharfo'e thar is about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet is about ha'f of th' voloom of NetBSD posts. Tharfo'e thar is about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of th' *BSD market. Tharfo'e thar is (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This hyar is cornsissent wif th' number of FreeBSD Usenet posts. Due t'th' troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales an' so on, FreeBSD went outta business an' was taken on over by BSDah who sell t'other troubled OS. Now BSDah is also daid, its co'pse turned on over t'yet t'other charnel house. All majo' surveys show thet *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is mighty sick an' its long term survival prospecks is mighty dim, dawgone it. Eff'n *BSD is t'survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD corntinues t'decay. Nothin' sho't of a miracle c'd save it at this hyar point in time. Fo' all prackical purposes, *BSD is daid. *BSD is dyin'
Yet another crippling bombshell hit th belaguered *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