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OpenBSD 3.0 Ready for Pre-Orders

Posted by timothy on from the tight-security dept.

osiris writes: "Theo de Raadt has just announced that OpenBSD 3.0 is now accepting pre-orders. 3.0 will now be shipping with 3 cds supporting booting from cd for 6 architectures. Plus there is a bonus audio track on the cd :) Plus the all new pf firewall, which replaces Darren Reed's ipf. I hear pf is pretty rock solid with quite a few new features."

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  1. Someone told me that BSD was dying. by Anton+Anatopopov · · Score: -1, Troll
    I am sure I read somewhere that BSD is dying. I think I read it here in fact. So does this mean that BSD has a future ? Or is this sort of like one last heroic release before BSD files for chapter 11 ?

    I have to admit, I used to be a NetBSD user. I used to run 0.8 and 0.9 on my 486 DX2 66Mhz gateway. Man I used to think I was a real 'hacker'. The hardest thing in those days was getting it to recognize my non-standard sony cdu31a cdrom drive.

    It's all plug and play these days. Kids today don't have a clue what we went through :-)

  2. Natalie Portmans Boobies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Natalie Portman's perky boobies:

    BOOBIES

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

    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, ths nws 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 hs 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