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*no comment* writes "Deadly.org has an article running that started out as a call for Seattle OpenBSD people to start a local usergroup, but has since turned into a thread for people all over the country looking for people."
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Well I hope I am not jinking things but thus far deadly.org seems to be holding up well to the /. effect. It's on my normal rounds anyway and I went there before I came here. Was surprised to see a deadly.org headline without the site being crushed.
I accept NetBSD. I hate OpenBSD and think Theo is a Fucking unoriginal arrogant asshole. (Cant do SMP, stole the idea of SSH from Tatu, I hate Tatu but he didt invent SSH, and he stole the idea of pf from ipf, and he is a know nothing all round arrogant fag)
But...
FREEBSD is god. Ask BigIP/F5. Ask Juniper. FreeBSD is god. And all you pansy loser pukes who still use Linux should go and get a sanity check, that would make you fags. FreeBSD: coherent, well documented, fast and comercially viable, and far easier to port cleanly and reliably than Line-sucks.
All you pussy loser VA Linux loving Slashdot zealot pukes need to get with the program and cleanseyourself of the Linux filth. FreeBSD or DIE. Live Free or Die.
Thanks, and if you dont agree, fuck off and die you god damn mediocritomaton RPM loving Microsoft zealot fag.
FreeBSD is for those who love Unix, Linux are for those who hate Microsoft (generally because they used it too much)
MUHAHAHHAHAHAHA. FreeBSD is pax romana!
BSD is dead! Christ how many times do we have to go over this.
Considering how all of the posts in this thread are trolls, I guess never enough.
BTW, wasn't BSD a UNIX or something?
We hold meetings on the same day as TLUG, as to avoid many of the weenies.
Well I google'd it but all the sites I found were old dead links on nonexistant servers. The only mentions that worked were more 'BSD is Dead' sites, but none of them are quite sure what the fuck it was either.
/. so behind on the times
Sad really to see
BSD rocks, but "the" (i.e: your) country sucks.
This is why BSD is distributed in Canada and Belgie.
Nuff said.
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
Your local cemetery? That's probably the best place to recruit *BSD users.
It smells like something is dead.
That is usually where they hang out.
*BSD R.I.P.
is that first you need USERS.
Anybody interested in organizing a Denver-based OpenBSD user group? I'd be willing to help out some.
sedawkgrep _at_ yahoo
Is that a salami in my pants or am I just happy to be me?
instead. There's usually more of them and you can visit
the meetings and (silently) laugh at some of the people
there. There are also some very brilliant people at
the meetings too. Unless you're in an area where your
favorite BSD has lots of people (The big computer areas), this
is probably the better solution.
Myself, I use NetBSD.
Or convince the LUG to become a general UUG like my local group HUMBUG (Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group) which is for Linux, BSD, or any Unix for that matter.
WUUG has members that use BSD, Linux, Solaris, IRIX, etc. Check them out www.wuug.org.
I am currently in the process of setting up a UK BSD User group system much along the lines of lug.org.uk. If you are interested or would like to volunteer services, email me at info@bsdusergroup.co.uk.
http://bsd.meetup.com