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Posted by Hemos on from the reportage-from-the-front dept.

Dan writes "Hubert Feyrer reports his experiences at the second Linuxdays of Lexembourgh in an email. From Oct 1st to 3rd, the second Linuxdays of Luxembourgh took place, which attracted about 260 visitors. There were many tutorials and presentations, and also an exhibition area. Hubert Feyrer was there doing presentations on a Video-Rendering Cluster using NetBSD, and a general introduction to The NetBSD Project. He also ran a NetBSD booth!"

16 comments

  1. Re:*BSD isn't dying! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not far enuff.

  2. Re:Which is better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They're too similar of XPeriences to matter.

  3. Linuxdays by NWT · · Score: 4, Informative

    [...] his experiences at the second Linuxdays of Lexembourgh [...]
    Ok, it is true that we are a small country. And it might be true that only very few of you have heard about us. BUT: The country's name is Luxembourg(h) and nothing with Lexe or sth. ;)

    Anyway, the Linuxdays were not really a big success, there were a few geeks and a lot of "oh-i-can-install-suse23-so-i-am-a-linux-god"-peop le ...

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    1. Re:Linuxdays by hubertf · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Um, it's _usual_ for _any_ Linuxday (that I've seen) that there are a few geeks, and only clueless people otherwise. That's what we all like about Linux isn't it - new land to discover?:)

      - Hubert (using Unix since 1989, NetBSD since 1993,
      Linux since it morphed from an OS to a
      buzzword :-)

    2. Re:Linuxdays by Arandir · · Score: 2

      there were a few geeks and a lot of "oh-i-can-install-suse23-so-i-am-a-linux-god"-peop le

      So in other words, it was just like any other Linux get-together anywhere else in the world...

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      A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
  4. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wow man, you are one sad individual. You should explore the real world out there. There is life out there that you can maybe one day be a part of.

  5. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent 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 fittingly 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. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    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 but among dilettante 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 dying