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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."
There are also a few comments from Theo de Raadt, the OpenBSD Founder himself. Be sure to check them out at the very bottom of the page!
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
Of the breakfast club ? and St Elmo's Fire ? I never knew he was a coder/hacker. How can this have been kept quiet for so long ? Did Matt's agent keep it secret so Matt didn't appear to be homosexual (like a large number of Linux users) ?
Coder, longtime FreeBSD hacker, actor
...It's like in Office Space:
"THE Matt Dillon? I celebrate the man's whole catalogue! What's your favorite of his movies?"
Managers == Trolls
Yet another crppling 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
wow. all this hacking and he still has time for movies. loved 'something about mary', keep up the good work.
"i was saying gnu-rd"
matt was great in "soething about mary", but how much can he really know about linux?
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
9. What is your opinion on .NET and do you think that it may be possible that .NET change the OS "map" as we know it?
.NET is Vapor. It's a marketing term dreamed up by Microsoft that will magically morph into whatever Microsoft eventually winds up delivering. MS announces grandiose ideas with cute catch phrases all the time, and as with any good vapor there is always some basis in truth (if only a little pinprick). The reality is a little different though... remember, these are the people that hyped windows-ME up the wazoo and all we got out of it was a speech-synthesized windows installation wizard! These are the people that called NT the unix-killer and told people it was as reliable as UNIX. .NOT is probably a more descriptive term for .NET. My guess is that it will turn into Microsoft-proprietary rent-a-service glue, and that it will introduce an order of magnitude more security issues then IIS.
Matt Dillon: I believe
Yes, I just blatantly copied this over. Sorry. But it's a choice comment. I bet he's right too.