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Matt Dillon On FreeBSD 5.0 VM System And More
JigSaw writes: "OSNews features a very interesting interview regarding FreeBSD 5 with the guy responsible for the very good (technically) FreeBSD VM among other things. Matt Dillon talks about everything: FreeBSD 5, Linux, .NET and much more. Additionally, OSNews also includes two mini interviews with the NetBSD and OpenBSD head developers."
oh oh could it be a first ?? Maybe? Of course, with all the new anti-first legislation, this could be a very bad thing.
I am not a troll!
If you had read the page you would have seen that it's not the famous actor, but the developer who happens to have the same name. While I am willing to grant that you may have seen that and you're just making a stupid comment, please refrain from doing so, as I hate to have my screen wasted. And if you really didn't know, PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE POSTING. Thank you
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, though I'm not yet sure about the universe. - A Einstein
FreeBSD, VM, etc. etc.. What about Festus and Miss Kitty and the other goings on in Dodge City? Slashdot isn't just about computers you know, its about people too!
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go commit suicide, spork_testicle.
Matt Dillon (actor or hacker) wasn't in the Breakfast Club.
There's also a signature at the bottom of your comment! What's your freakin' point?
Jeez, finally something funny and it gets modded down. I guess it's true what they say about geeks having no sense of humor.
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Wind River Phoenix died of a massive overdose of BSD. Sad, really.
Trolltalk isn't dead. It's been moved. You just need to know where to find it... ;-)
You exhibit the typical lack of understanding of Operating System design.
Have a nice day
Maybe we should just say "GPL apps", you BSD cocksucker.
"I am a goat-fucker."
Matt Dillon, 1998.
all you Microshit assholes can suck my apple flavored dick. OSX is where it's at. nobody gives a damn about this M$ bullshit. it has no real applications.
Troll? Are the moderators hitting the crack pipe again? I see nothing remotely troll-worthy about this statement. It's a perfectly accurate viewpoint.
What, something says any given part of linux is of poor quality and it's a troll?
that was some funny shit you pulled with the @s requring a horizonal scroll bar to be shown even at high resolutions.
but taco has got rid of that part of your post now, and the lameness filter has been "fixed".
it was funny while it lasted.
well done
mjl.
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, *BSD is dead.
*BSD is dying
I am a charter member of ABC -- Anonymous BSD Cocksmokers.
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Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of THESE!!!
1) Poster says something ungood about linux
2) Poster says it isn't flamebait
3) Comment can't be offtopic since it contains the word linux
4) Comment isn't overrated (hasn't been rated yet)
5) Therefore it must be a troll.
Remember kids : don't do crack. It kills yer brain
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, *BSD is dead.
*BSD is dying
Still, it doesn't change the fact that what seems like 9/10 useful programs or just plain fun programs that I want to try need something specific to linux. Whether it's easy to code around or not doesn't change the fact that apparently most everyone codes specifically for linux. Go to the sdl site and try most of those games out. Some of the better plugins for gkrellm come to mind also. I use Sylpheed for mail, and although it's a fine client I wanted to try some other gui based mail clients. Every nice one that I found (from descriptions in web sites and screenshots) required linux. I use *BSD's linux emulation and even after playing with makefiles and configuring options, none would compile. Same with the newer Gecko based web browsers (galeon and skipstone).
Most of this is useless eyecandy-driven desktop fluff, but I'll never get to put it on my desktop as I don't run Linux. Sure I have all I need on my desktop anyway, but it is a bit of a downer to see all these great products that COULD be cross*nix compatible, but the folks coding em either 1) don't care or 2) don't know any better. Same results either way. Kinda smacks of hypocrisy in some small sense, as a few years back (when I did run Linux) most users were complaining about all of the MS stuff that wasn't cross platform and should have been (mostly formats, not applications)...but I'm starting to rant...thanks for your explanation (really
A man's pit bull met an untimely end after it encountered the household's other pet -- a hungry 200-pound Burmese python.
The 30-pound dog was evidently killed and eaten early Friday, police said. That morning, a Merced policeman responded to Jerry Brown's call that his two beloved animals had gone missing.
After a quick search of the area around Brown's home, the police officer and the pet owner found the snake curled up under the house with a big bulge in its midsection.
They had discovered the dog as well. The python was captured by its owner and returned to his pen.
"The snake had the dog for dinner," said Merced Police Department's Sgt. Andre Matthews. "It's hard to believe the pit bull didn't rip the snake to pieces. But those snakes just get hold and keep squeezing until they stop kicking."
Merced animal control officials are now investigating whether the python should be considered a wild animal and in violation of city code.
It wasn't the only peculiar animal story brewing in Merced. On Saturday, animal control officers were called into action to retrieve a four-foot iguana found walking down a residential sidewalk.
The big reptile was taken into city custody.
ROFL. Nice job.
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This is one of the best articles I've seen on Slashdot in the recent past. Great article find, great detail, knowledgable comments and good discussion.
Excellent work - here's to wishing for more like this.
What's 'RFLE'? I know what the others are, I just haven't seen that one before.
You found that "funny"? God, you need to get out more often... Or maybe you just need to reprogram your humour code to get the best tradeoff between introverted-programming-hermit and maintainable-person.
Great to "here" that you are still sucking cock! Thanks Cephas Keken!
I hate to post insightful comments, but you want Theo's dick in your ass!
Through true clustering, i.e. not the Beowulf bull.
Drinking urin is a 1,000,000 times better than eating shit. You were honest but disguised it in a pile of mess. NT = shit. Unix = urin. HUGE DIFFERENCE. Sometimes when a dude eats out his girlfriend he gets a drop or two of urin in his mouth. This isn't so bad. But if he were giving a RIM JOB, and he got a big chunk of DOODIE in his mouth, I think he'd be heading to the toilet to throw up. That is NT. A big chunk of turd on your toungue that makes you want to vomit or commit suicide.
Lord help us all.
Gaah... that was a clever troll. Rik's VM is the NEW one, Andrea's one was the one replaced.
So, are you troll or moron?
I am glad to see he has found somehting to occupy his time, cause he was never a very good actor. I do have to say that I liked "My Bodygaurd", but he wasn't my favorite part of that movie.
Great to hear that you found some other interests Matt.