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December 2001 Issue of Daemon News

Posted by michael on from the another-month-goes-by dept.

questionlp writes: "The December 2001 issue of the Daemon News E-zine is now live on the Internet. This month's issue contains great articles about generating MRTG graphs of qmail statistics under FreeBSD, coding styles, SNMP agent development and the first of three parts on the csh and tcsh shells. Also launched this month for Daemon News is their hardware certification and driver development services."

11 comments

  1. For the Ultra-Paranoid... by imrdkl · · Score: 2, Informative

    The article on System Log verification is good too. I have never felt quite this motivated to keep track of the logs, but it seems a reasonable pursuit for a security expert to write about it, and naturally, for BSD to provide it. I just hope I never feel the need to use it.

  2. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently 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 the 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.

    Fact: *BSD is dead

    1. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No. You are dying, punk.

    2. Re:*BSD is dying by DrSkwid · · Score: 1

      it might be a troll but it does sound convincing

      I'm a sahreholder of an ISP, we've been running for five years or so. Originally we were going for NT but soon discovered what a bad idea that was.

      2 days before launch we scrapped the idea and bought a BSD 2.1 Internet Server Ready CD.
      Overnight it was installed and working.
      Now with around 5000 users our BSD setup happily chugs along on 3 pentium 90 machines (mail, web/ftp & news) [separated for failsafe rather than load].

      At home and at my website, FreeBSD was the easy choice. It's rock solid.

      Ports & packages are a dream come true.

      Still, though, my OS of choice is plan9. Even if it never had another release again I would be perfectly satisfied.
      (web browsing aside - a mighty task)

      but there is a new release on it's way. We'll finally wave goodbye to 23 char filenames (sigh) and hopefully support another sound card (sigh :)

      want to listen to some music
      cat music > /dev/audio

      want to burn a cd ?
      cp *.jpg /mnt/cd

      write to a network socket
      echo 'hello' > /net/tcp/10/data

      inetd? nah. we have aux/listen. plonk a script in /bin/services called tcp7 for instance and then it's stdin & stdout are the connection

      echo server - try :
      #!/bin/rc
      cat

      it's such a pleasure

      http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9

      --
      There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
    3. Re:*BSD is dying by thedarkstorm · · Score: 0

      This is absurd. How in the world can you proclaim an OS's users and death by counting UseNet Posts. I use FreeBSD for both work and home and have in the past setup a few companies to use BSDI. However, i've never actually had to post to a usnet group for *BSD. I also use Linux, AIX, and when somebody forces me, I login to an OS/390 box (I do cross platform Java development). However, I have yet to creat a UseNet posting for any of these OS's much less windows. Why? Because I know how to read, and everything I've wanted to do or desired to do, was already written.

      Get a clue!

      --
      ... hey ... I had a .sig, bu then MicroSo$$ embraced it...
    4. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Fact: I'm moments away from urinating on your face.

  3. Print. by saintlupus · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall that Daemon News was supposed to start issuing a print version as well as the online version of their zine. Has anyone seen this in an actual store, or is it a subscribe through the web site only sort of thing?

    --saint

    1. Re:Print. by questionlp · · Score: 3, Informative
      The print editin of Daemon News has been going on for around a year now. The last issue was number 5 and I got it early November.

      More information about the print magazine can be found here (or http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ for those who are afraid of goatse.cx links). The magazine has turned from every other month to quarterly.

  4. BSD may not be dying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But goddam it's users are GAY, flaming GAY. why do you think THEO is such a PRICK? He hasn't had any since the NETBSD CORE BLEW HIM off. And don't get me started on FREEBSD.
    LINUS is GAY too, a fucking PENGUIN? Too scared to go for the PINK TRIANGLE you wanted, FAG?
    At least windows doesn't have any GAY logos and shit...

  5. Why is this posted almost every month.... by duffbeer703 · · Score: 2

    Daemonnews comes out almost every month.

    Why it news when it arrives. This is more lame than ask slashdot.

    --
    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
    1. Re:Why is this posted almost every month.... by MavEtJu · · Score: 2, Informative

      There is a new Linux kernel coming out every 3-4 weeks. These ones are announced too.

      If you don't like it, go to the preferences (on the left side of your window) and select BSD under the "Exclude Stories from the Homepage". You're happy, we're happy :-)

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      bash$ :(){ :|:&};: