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AMD MP Athlon FreeBSD certified

Posted by michael on from the not-dying dept.

RazzleDazzle writes: "AMD released a MP Athlon system that has been certified by Daemon News to work with FreeBSD. Read the full article here."

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  1. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Netcraft has officially confirmed: *BSD is dying

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD ccounts 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

  2. *BSD is feeling a little sick. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    *BSD is under the weather...

    Recently, Slashdot [goatse.cx] confirmed that WindRiver bucked FreeBSD out on its ass for a carton of Winstons and a case of Moosehead. This only serves to confirm the fact that FreeBSD is unwanted, doomed to be passed around like an old copy of redhat 7.2.

    *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are quite good. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among scientists and engineers. *BSD continues to improve. Nothing short of a miracle save Linux at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is thriving.

    FACT: slashdot subscriptions are overpriced.

  3. DaemonNews? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Begging pardon, but DaemonNews has the feeling of a Commodore Users Group.

    Looking at the art and content reminds one of fat balding men in thong sandals and hawaiian shirts, getting together with a box of disks under each arm, ready to swap C-64 software and theorize on the world-changing wonders of the Amiga, once they can someday afford one.

    Amateur hour weekends in the community college lecture hall. You can hear the user group leader reciting from Roberts Rules of Order, trying to interrupt the treasurer's argument against four packs of hotdog buns instead of three for next month's outdoor picnic.

    Somewhere in the background, two prepubescent kids decide it'd be neat to label a new system "certified" because one of them thought of a neat little logo, and both think a new system looks cool.

    DaemonNews certification was born.

  4. BSD IS DEAD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    At the deli, some kid kept pestering the man behind the counter. he wanted to know how the desensitizing ointments worked.. he kept reading the names aloud, and asking why they were different. I'd be surprised if he even knew how to work his tool yet.

    Some poor little girl is going to be sore, and pregnant with an idiots child...

    I went to an interview. The ad read, "Administrative Assistant wanted For Night Club."

    Lets just say many corporate admin. assistants were quite surprised to find that it was a strip club. The lady that interviewed assured me that the women seemed scared.

    I thought it was funny. While I am qualified for the position, I don't think I'll be entertaining you with funny strip club stories.. The gig doesn't start until May, and I need a gig now..

    Although, if they hire me, I might contemplate the shittiest gig ever in between.. I'm sure the stories would be worth it!

    Another fucked up thing I saw today, and I swear it's true...

    I saw a lady pick the boogers off of her toddlers nose.
    THEN SHE ATE IT!!!!!!

    where the hell am i today?????