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EuroBSDcon 2002 Finished
Giacomo Cariello writes "The 2nd European BSD Conference was held November 15-17, 2002, in Amsterdam. It was a great success with over 250 attendees. Pictures are now online here. The best paper award was won by Poul-Henning Kamp. Next EuroBSDcon will probably take place in Paris."
Sounds like something from a Mortal Kombat game.
Perhaps,
EuroBSDcon 2002 is complete
would be better.
then again, i've been coding PHP for the last 12 hours, and probably am in no state to be making stupid jokes.
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Details on that award-winning paper anyone? I've looked around the site but have found nothing? Is it about FreeBSD timekeeping, that which he gave his presentation on?
They'd have called it a 'great success' if 10 people attended. 250 people is not a 'great success'.
BSD isn't dead?
:)
Attractive women? frickin' DANCING?
I always knew that by running OpenBSD I would gain at least one advantage in comparison to bloody Linux.
Dirk
Is that what they call them in the industry nowadays?
I always thought it was "memorial".
Did BSD get a "marker" instead of a tombstone?
What about the latest in anti-stink spray?
Another bombshell has his the EuroBSDCon community..
Oh, you know the rest. EuroBSDCon 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 among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save *BSD from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
It's dead, Jim!
see my report.