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The End Of Minix?
Otter writes "Minix is best known as the Unix clone for x86 that inspired Linus Torvalds to write one himself. It's pretty much dropped off the map since. The latest patch for XFree86's xterm drops support for Minix. As the changelog notes, 'Juliusz Chroboczek noted it was removed from XFree86 server; there have been no users since 1996.'"
Apple has only had a small colony of crazy hippies as their sole users since before '96 and Steve Jobs is still holding out hope. ;)
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Nice comparison. Lego and Meccano (aka "Erector Set" in the US) are toys too, but can be darn educational and occasionally useful. And fun.
-- Alastair
But whos fault is that? Links and Lynx are both great browsers, its the incompetent web designers that are at fault.
If the web would of stayed a source of information, instead of a source of ad revenue and flash games, the CLI would still be fine.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
Now developers can focus their efforts on Linux.
Looking at kernel.org, I see a list of 16 different platforms that run Linux...I see 5 that would run Minix 1.5...Only 1 that runs 2.0...
It's obvious that the developers have already started leaving for Linux development.
Can anyone honestly say that there is a good reason to use Minix over Linux/BSD???
I think it says something when the main page for a "modern" OS isn't running its own web server...
I'm sure there's a good reason why the development team decided to remove Minix support from xterm...this was most likely holding back development of new features.
I actually cant wait for version 5.0 of XFree86...we finally get color mouse pointers (currently available through CVS)...
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 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 among OS 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
Buzz, you're wrong - but thanks for playing.
Linux the Kernel is not an commercial operating system.
No company are selling the kernel as far as I know.
Some companys are however selling GNU based distributions with the Linux kernel - but that's another beast.
Just saying it like it are.