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GNU-Darwin Goes Beta

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that's-easy dept.

proclus writes "OSX.1 users can now install the GNU-Darwin base distribution automatically with one command. As Root: "curl http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/one_stop | csh"." This assummes you have curl or wget or something. From there you can install gnome, abiword, gimp or whatever. Looks pretty smooth (although I'm kinda confused how you get back to OSX.1 from there ;)

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  1. TP by CoffeeJedi · · Score: -1, Troll

    Third Post!!!!

    come on, i need to troll at least ONCE!

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  2. OSX.1 is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We should all keep in mind this simple truth: OSX.1 is dying. For all practical purposes OSX.1 is dead!

  3. Woo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Enhanced Dildo web browser

    Cool!

  4. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Netcraft Confirms: *BSD is dying

    Yet nother crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *SD 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, having lost 93% of its core developers.

    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

  5. GNU Darwin? by istartedi · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK, so they took from BSD, gave to GPL, then mixed the result with something as absurdly proprietary as Curl. Are they trying to see how many people they can piss off with one OS?

    As a BSD "thief", I get nothing.

    If I were a GPL lover, I would get tainted with Curl.

    As someone who appreciates a good commercial package, I am left with concerns that they will decide to turn it over to "the community" which is just a synonym for abandonment.

    Of course, that's just me. They could please me by keeping the BSD codebase that they modified BSD, and then they could run whatever proprietary code they wanted on top of it.

    I expect that others may be more or less difficult to please. Then of course there are the users, who don't care about any of that crap. If they can please the users it might be a moot point. This could end up being part of the "open monopoly" if it ran on x86.

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  6. The failure of *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    So why now? Why did *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?

    The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shround over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

  7. Wow, one command. by Bobo+the+Space+Chimp · · Score: 0, Troll

    > "OSX.1 users can now install the GNU-Darwin base
    > distribution automatically with one command. As
    > Root: "curl http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/one_stop | csh"."

    Congratulations, GNU, on entrance into the 1980's.

    Now if someone can just figure out how to make a batch file and make that double-clickable on the desktop.

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