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FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 Now Available
Dan writes "Murray Stokely of FreeBSD release engineering team announces that they're one milestone closer with the immediate availability of FreeBSD first release candidate for the i386, alpha, sparc64, and ia64 platforms. ISO images and FTP installation directories are available now from the FreeBSD FTP site."
BSD IS DYING
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5.0 really cute sorority girls are now available.
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Oh. come on! If you are going to do a joke that lame, you might as well include a beowulf cluster comment.
and 802.11b cards, and Arcnet. Due to lack of these drivers I replaced my FreeBSD 4.6 Server with RedHat, despite its higher stability and software availability (no qmail, courier imap, proftpd for redhat).
I bought an Olicom 3140 PCI TR card just for FreeBSD and hooked it up. Made the whole server very unstable with uptimes of less than two weeks a pop. Plus the lousy kernel error messages.. TR support is alpha in both 4.6 and 4.7 and I wouldnt recommend it for any use at all.
Hope also that FreeBSD will soon enough shoot for a journalled filesystem; hopefully one of the already stable ones like XFS. FreeBSD is lagging behind the Linux trailblazer in features, and despite its stability, people are choosing Linux simply because FreeBSD's options are really limiting.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
cunts. all of you.
fucking go to hell, i hate you.
so much
Aftenposten!
oh, please shut the fuck up and crawl back under your desk and jerk off, will you. you're not funny, witty, or even mildly interesting. the fuckstick mod who thinks your remarks contain any droplet of humor is as braindead as you are. and yes, bsd is dead.
The "advice" given above is from a deviant, BSD-loving freakazoid named Sean Kelly.
Take with a large grain of Epsom salt.
I just heard the sad news on talk radio. FreeBSD was found dead this morning. There were no further details. Dilletante-dabbler troll hobbyists miss it very much.
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 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
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I sometimes think that this quote is more appropriate:
Linux is for people who love UNIX, BSD is for people who hate Linux.
Dinivin