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Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Penguin Computers
Pii writes "News.com is running a story about Penguin Computing acquiring Scyld Computing, a company founded by Donald Becker, of linux ethernet driver and Beowulf cluster fame. Becker will stay on as Penguin's Chief Technology Officer, and the companies claim they don't expect any layoffs as a result of the merger."
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It's about time that Scyld goes, seeing that he's DEAD (his funeral) at least as far as Beowulf is concerned.
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Re: Your application for frist prost:
DENIED!
It is official; Netcraft 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 point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Does anybody know if NetBSD has been proted to this yet?
PRE haps they will! :)
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" Does anybody know if NetBSD has been proted to this yet?"
What is a "prot" ? Is it a pornographic port ? If so, remind me to probe it.
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Millions of dollars are going down the drain to fund missions to planets by way of virtual reality just like the Moon landing. But the majority still believe these missions are real. What a crock.
Gay crossdressing dragons tapdance their way down from the fifth dimension and click their red high heels together every time classical music is played. Their crooked teeth gnash together in perfect harmony generating 1.21 Gigawatts so Marty can visit Mars again.
Oops! We lost a robot, give us another billion. Har Har
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Good to see this post format is still going strong.
1. Type something about linux here
2. type a lot of ?'s here
3. type profit!!! here
4. Wait for it to get modded up as funny.
Nothing is better than poking fun at how Linux makes money for a company.
Spock lost his spoon. Maybe Snoopy had taken it. But at the time he didn't know. And where was his fork? He had lost this since yesterday. Then, it was discovered that Spock was really a communist. The commander Jero had suspected that from the strange ears and told it to the cook of the ship when they were chatting on the IRC. Spock was a goddamn communist sonofabitch....
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10, @05:37PM (#6165208)
Spock lost his spoon. Maybe Snoopy had taken it. But at the time he didn't know. And where was his fork? He had lost this since yesterday. Then, it was discovered that Spock was really a communist. The commander Jero had suspected that from the strange ears and told it to the cook of the ship when they were chatting on the IRC. Spock was a goddamn communist sonofabitch...