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Overview of the BSDs
zeekiorage writes "A good informative article about the various BSD OSs, their legacy, philosophy and importance on the ExtremeTech web site. Excerpt from the article: 'Nowadays, the term 'The BSDs' refers to the family of operating systems which were derived, to a greater or lesser extent, from BSD. The five best known BSDs are FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, and Darwin (which serves as the foundation for Apple's MacOS X). But virtually all modern operating systems -- from Windows to BeOS to Linux -- rely on crucial BSD code to run.'"
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why do you care about your mod? you're AC, it's not like this is going on your permanent record.
pointing out that this is a joke just goes to prove that you lust for teh manham.
Because some moderators have no sense of humor.
And what's "teh manham?"
(This is however off-topic, and I expect it to be moderated as such.)
BTW, I was right. It did get modded Flamebait. I mean, I could understand overrated, but I really didn't want it to be seen as flamebait. Oh well.
ROFL
Best way to get modded "flamebait" is to say "Don't mod this as flamebait."
Please, moderaters, don't mod this as insightful.
"Did someone post "*BSD is Dead" yet? "
yes
p.s. I'm a necromancer
An AC wrote:
;)
> It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy[chomp!]
[Munch! Slurp!] Help! [Crunch! Slurp! Burp!]
Sorry, folks, it looks like the famous "*BSD is Dying" troll is dead. Eaten by a Jaguar.
Move along, nothing to see here. He's a really neat eater. Please continue enjoying your BSD based OS.
Hey, Kitty. What say you and I go poke around the Microsoft campus and see if we can't scare up a nice juicy Longhorn for desert?
[Slurp!]
Good Kitty!
(No actual humans were harmed in the posting of this message.)
That is BRILLIANT.
Dude, of course it's interesting!
3) "only one security hole that would allow an intruder to break in from the Internet has been discovered in the past 6 years" I'm just guessing, but I'd think this only includes software as part of the BSD operating system, and not third party contributing software... Hell, the Slapper worm is a port of a BSD worm over to the GNU/Linux system...
Since apache isn't part of BSD or Linux, then Slapper isn't a BSD worm, nor is it a Linux worm. It's an apache worm.
that was nice...and fast.
so fast, I doubt you typed it and quickly ran over to Compaq's website, ran over to "Company History", Cut & Paste, an voila. Instant +5.
You are king of the trolls. Will you write my resume for me?
The DNS was out when I posted it... I run the DNS servers for K5, so I was rather alarmed to find out about this. It's fixed now because I went and talked with some telco people about the situation.
:)
But that's not really on the topic of this conversation
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