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OpenBSD's Red Hat Compatibility Package Updated
Dan writes "Jason Ish has updated the redhat/base OpenBSD port from Red Hat 6.2 to Red Hat 8.0. The email note is a few days old, but the port seems to have been committed yesterday. So far he has tested with Opera and Netscape. If you run any Linux apps on OpenBSD, you are encouraged to test these commits and provide feedback. (Several people have reported success running Opera 6.12, Opera7 with some tweaks, and Netscape)."
Theo and Me at E3
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The only problem I've had, using OpenBSD as my desktop, is that RealPlayer for Linux froze whenever it would try to access the network. Strangely enough, this was not a problem as of 3.0, but only came into effect after.
Since RealPlayer and Opera had the same basic problems, I think it's safe to assume RealPlayer should be working once again... I've grabbed the latest port, and I'll be trying it soon. I'll reply to this once I can give first-hand answers.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
8.0 - they are getting ahead!
:) Actually the only time I have ever used linux compat was to install a few Loki games, which I don't even have time for now anyway :)
FreeBSD has only got 7.1 ported. We have to do something
Saying your OS is the best because more people use it is like saying MacDonalds make the best food
hey now! just a sec while i give a fuck!
Wordperfect 8 for Linux didn't work for me with the new port (Realplayer problems were not solved for me either oddly enough..) Can anyone confirm this??
Christ on a bike, what's that pong?
Smells like something died in here...
IN FACT, THEY SHOULD SCRAP REDHATE AND HIRE THEO TO DO IT FROM SCRATCH! HES THE MAN!!! AND LINUX SUCKS, ANYWAYS!!!
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Theo is a cool guy
Theo is a cool guy (Score:-1)
by Anonymous Coward on 04:25 PM -- Saturday April 26 2003 (#5816534)
Theo and Me at E3 [rcsed.ac.uk]
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MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY CONTRIBUTING TO OPEN BSD INSTEAD OF BITCHING ABOUT HOW RELPLAYER AND OPERA DON'T WORK. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED SENDING IN PATCH!?!!? WELL!?!?
NO WORK, NO GRIPE. GET YOUR ASS CODING. THOE WOULD SAY THE SAME, IF HE WASN"T SO BUSY COMEING UP WITH MORE BAD ASS CODE!!!!
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IS THAT THEO'S OWN LINUX CURNEL IS USED TO RUN LINUX APPS ON OPENBSD, SO OBVIOUSLY FREEBSD USERS ARE FAGS FOR USING AN INFERIOR IMPLEMENTATION!!!!!!
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The ability for the dying to use components of something that is brain dead.
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
I hope you realize that RH is now up to 9.0.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I am trying this linux emu. with the 3.3-current ELF on an i386 and it works great, in fact I have not seen anything that I have tried from the ports give any trouble. Opera, MagicPoint, acroread so far.
But what does it take to get Java and Javascript to work under Opera? Use a linux emulation Java (doesn't look like it is up to the 8.0 emulation yet in ports) or a native Java? I'm used to Netscape and I have upgraded on another PC so many times I can't recall what I did if anything to get Java working.
Oh and BTW, 24 posts and the next two stories have probably 300 together. I never did like driving in the traffic.