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Crypto and IPSec Merged into 2.5
Corbet writes "Linus has just merged the new crypto API and IPSec implementation into his 2.5 BitKeeper tree. This is the first time that serious cryptographic code has made an appearance in the mainline kernel, and it will hopefully lead to more secure communications for all Linux users in the future."
Did I get it?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Linux community when IDC confirmed that Linux 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 Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] [amdest.com] to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Debian Linux is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Debian Linux developers Ian and Deb only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Debian Linux is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SuSe leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of SuSe. How many users of Slackware are there? Let's see. The number of SuSe versus Slackware posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Slackware users. GNU/Linux posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Slackware posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of GNU/Linux. A recent article put Red Hat Linux at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Red Hat Linux users. This is consistent with the number of Red Hat Linux Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Red Hat Linux went out of business and was taken over by Mandrake who sell another troubled OS. Now Mandrake is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
Fact: Linux is Dying
Cambridge, MA -- At a gathering of top kernel developers for the GNU/Linux set of operating system utilities early yesterday morning, it was unanimously decided that a special task force of graduate students would be appointed to convert the kernel to a more mainstream and powerful language, PHP.
While Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman argued amongst one another for a short several hours, Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox ceremoniously converted the first line of code over to the new, more powerful language.
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5
Shut the fuck up you fucking uncle fucker!
zero is now overrated
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I can't believe how badly you suck at trolling.
They're arrogant and have a "RTFM, idiot" attitude. Read the mailing lists...
Linus has just merged the new crypto API and IPSec implementation into his 2.5 BitKeeper tree.
Since the new EULA says Linux users can't use the word "BitKeeper" in a public conversation unless they've paid Larry McVoy $19.95 (to pay his employees and to feed his family, you know), I hope you will be prepared to pull this article on demand.. or pay up!
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Well, at 3k/sec, 4 mb = ~ 4000k, so 4000k/3k.s = 1333 sec, or roughly 20 minutes.
I did think that stripping alternate archs would save much more, however. Thanks for the bit.
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