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Jordan Hubbard Interview Cleaned Up
Jason123 writes: "Almost twenty days ago, FreeBSD's (& also Apple's) Jordan Hubbard gave an interview via IRC to BSDVault. With permission from BSDVault, OSNews has now cleaned-up the interview, formatted it in a more readable manner and published the result. Jordan talks all sorts of interesting things, like FreeBSD 5, his job at the kernel team at Apple, the FreeBSD commmunity, XFree, Microsoft and more." (This is the interview featured in slightly rawer form here.)
It sounds as if they're tracking the same feature set as Linux but trying to roll it all out in a smoother transition. That's one of the strongest features of FreeBSD, I think. There's no unstable periods between libc revisions, problems going from a.out to elf, or the VM getting replaced midway through a stable branch :).
I just wish I could run it on my mac, jkh does work at Apple afterall.
It's been almost 5 minutes since the post and there havent been any BSD-is-Dying posts, maybe BSD is really dying now that the trolls have lost interest. ;)
I want NetBSD's rc system will be merged into FreeBSD before 5.0 released, it's too cool, it will beat some linuxish who pround that their stupid SysV rc system. other things are the COOL KSE thread and file system ACL. yah! too many thing to taste.
Yet anothr 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 mong 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
Somebody could implement that as a compile option => no boring moments for admins anymore. Besides that it would be cute.
It's nice to see a 'linux is dying' post for a change.
go on, name something bsd can do that linux cant. none. now try and name something linux can do that bsd cant. lots. :)
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
No offense, but OSNews has a commenting system, so why post comments about their article here?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
I've no problem with BSD's claims to the desktop. Good for them if it's true. But to base such from quote from Apple's marketing dept amounts to something akin to information abuse.