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October 2001 Issue Of Daemon News Is Live
questionlp writes: "The October 2001 issue of Daemon News is now on-line. This month's issue has articles on TrustedBSD, placing named into a chroot'd environment, backing up Windows from FreeBSD, and a note on the recent new releases of the different BSD operating systems (including Mac OS X 10.1)."
What's with the FreeBSD focus of "general" BSD periodicals such as daemon news? 4 out of the 7 articles are primarily focused on FreeBSD (I'm including the TrustedBSD and "Daemon's Advocate" articles)...
-DH
i especially like the trustedbsd piece, it's nice to see someone actually shed some light on this project that is so completely misunderstook by the millions of slashdorks. :)
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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 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 th 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 and 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 all practical purposes, *SD is dead.
*BSD is dying
what Netcraft REALLY says SHIT FOR BRAINS ...let's hope I got that right cause this troll is getting old
Netcraft Confirms: *BSD is dying
I confirm that this is the same tired-ass old post you've been giving us all along. The word is originality; look it up, toad.
By the way, it should be noted that Netcraft itself is running Apache on FreeBSD.
It's a very dark ride.
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