NetBSD Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

jschauma writes "This week marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of development of the NetBSD Operating System. The very first commit to the NetBSD source tree (src/Makefile) was by Chris Demetriou on Friday 21 March, 1993. Parties are being held in various cities around the world, see the press release for more details. Happy 10th Birthday, NetBSD!"

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Fact: *BSD is Dying

[Anonymous Coward]

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 late point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

Fact: *BSD is dying

Re:Fact: *BSD is Dying

[istartedi]

easy to use search-n-replace functions, Karma to burn, couldn't resist:

It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *Hussein is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *Hussein community when IDC confirmed that *Hussein 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 *Hussein has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Hussein is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *Hussein's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Hussein faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *Hussein because *Hussein is dying. Things are looking very bad for *Hussein. As many of us are already aware, *Hussein continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

FreeHussein is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeHussein developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeHussein is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

OpenHussein leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenHussein. How many users of NetHussein are there? Let's see. The number of OpenHussein versus NetHussein posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetHussein users. Hussein/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetHussein posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Hussein/OS. A recent article put FreeHussein at about 80 percent of the *Hussein market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeHussein users. This is consistent with the number of FreeHussein Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeHussein went out of business and was taken over by HusseinI who sell another troubled OS. Now HusseinI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that *Hussein has steadily declined in market share. *Hussein is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *Hussein is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *Hussein continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this late point in time. For all practical purposes, *Hussein is dead.

Fact: *Hussein is dying

First!

[Anonymous Coward]

My FIrsst!

An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok let's just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid, unrealistic children had your way and the U.S.A. didn't go into Iraq.

Let's say that you really get your way and we destroy all our nuclear weapons and stick daisies in our gun barrels and sit around with some white wine and cheese and pat ourselves on the back, so proud of what
we've done for world peace.

Let's say that we cut the military budget to just enough to keep the National Guard on hand to help out with floods and fires.

Let's say that we close down our military bases all over the world and bring the troops home, increase our foreign aid and drop all the trade sanctions against everybody.

I suppose that in your fantasy world this would create a utopian world where everybody would live in peace. After all, the great monster, the United States of America, the cause of all the world's trouble would
have disbanded it's horrible military and certainly all the other countries of the world would follow suit.

After all, they only arm themselves to defend their countries from the mean old U.S.A.

Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled mugwumps. get your head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers burning. Do you think that a trip to Iraq by Sean Penn did anything but encourage
a wanton murderer to think that the people of the U.S.A. didn't have the nerve or the guts to fight him?

Barbra Streisand's fanatical and hateful rankings about George Bush makes about as much sense as Michael Jackson hanging a baby over a railing.

You people need to get out of Hollywood once in a while and get out into the real world. You'd be surprised at the hostility you would find out here. Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long distance truck driver that you don't think Saddam Hussein is doing anything wrong.

Tell a farmer with a couple of sons in the military that you think the United States has no right to defend itself.

Go down to Baxley, Georgia and hold an anti-war rally and see what the folks down there think about you.

You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste of protoplasm I've ever had the displeasure to hear about.

Sean Penn, you're a traitor to the United States of America. You gave aid and comfort to the enemy. How many American lives will your little, "fact finding trip" to Iraq cost? You encouraged Saddam to
think that we didn't have the stomach for war.

You people protect one of the most evil men on the face of this earth and won't lift a finger to save the life of an unborn baby. Freedom of choice you say?

Well I'm going to exercise some freedom of choice of my own. If I see any of your names on a marquee, I'm going to boycott the movie. I will completely stop going to movies if I have to. In most cases it
certainly wouldn't be much of a loss.

You scoff at our military who's boots you're not even worthy to shine. They go to battle and risk their lives so ingrates like you can live in luxury. The day of reckoning is coming when you will be faced with the undeniable truth that the war against Saddam Hussein is the war on terrorism.

America is in imminent danger. You're either for her or against her. There is no middle ground.

I think we all know where you stand.
What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

Re:I have a question

[Billly Gates]

Here is a more scientific study about why Linux is the best os out there.