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Ghost for Unix
junyoung writes "Hubert Feyrer released the latest version of g4u ("ghost for unix"), a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM image that allows one to easily clone PC harddisks by using FTP. Since it reads the disk bit by bit, it can create an image of any operating system and any file system. Besides, it's free (under BSD style license)."
hi
Could this be the frost pist? I'm eating stuffed chicken for lunch. And I just got a haircut. And later on I'm going to nail the hot chick across the hall.
smug bastard
what the bastard is so smug about
Now there really will be a ghost in the shell :)
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
This is a troll, so I shouldn't even respond to it but here goes. Since they are in two entirely seperate categories, linux software and shitty movies, they chance of somebody confusing them is slight. Therefore there is no infringement. Now fark off.
I was going to write a sensible response, but I haven't trolled in ages, so first post or something.
You are an idiot.
a reply to a reply to a post cant be first post you 14m3r tr0ll
I am always amused by the folks who liken Windows to a virus on your
computer. Then it occurred to be the Linux is really the Super Virus. When
you fall for the propaganda and try Linux it immediately wipes out all of
your software. Am I right or wrong about that ? Then it wipes out all of
your hardware support. It is a nice trick by the Linux advocates to suggest
that you do not know what you are missing until you try Linux for at least a
few months. Very funny. They forget to mention that what you will be
missing is your software and your hardware support.
And if you use a digital camera,PDA,MP3 device,camcorder,or have your TV
attached to your computer you have just screwed yourself over that many more
times. And unless you chose to build your PC from components you also have
wiped out a copy of Windows that you paid for. All of that put together is
a lot to sacrifice just to tell yourself that you are finally out of MS's
evil grasp.
Linux sucks, it always has and it probably always will. Let the TRUTH be with you.
ignore, having problems with login