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BSDCon Europe 2001, only one week to go!

Posted by Nik on from the fulfill-your-beerware-license-obligations dept.

BSDCon Chair writes "There's only one week to go before the inaugural BSDCon Europe conference in Brighton, UK. This is your last chance to register if you want to attend, as spaces are now limited. There's a very strong linueup of speakers, with many leading project members attending. Together with the social events arranged it promises to be an exciting weekend of technical discussion and merriment. We've tried to accomodate all the feedback we've received and so there are now student rates available, as well as day rates for those who can only attend for part of the conference. We've also provided a PDF form that you can fax back to us if you can't pay by credit card. All the details are on the conference website, http://www.bsdconeurope.org" Disclaimer: I (Nik) am one of the people organising the conference.

2 of 6 comments (clear)

  1. cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i'm sure lots of this will go one. silly blokes. oh to be the second guy in that picture!

  2. *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 *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, 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