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Nearly 2 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

Echo|Fox writes "So much for *BSD is dying. The latest Netcraft survey shows over 2 million active sites, and almost 4 million active hostnames all running on FreeBSD. Combined with the report that 5 of the top 10 hosting companies in terms of reliability were FreeBSD based, it's been a very positive month *BSD wise. Perhaps the most interesting quote from the survey is: 'Indeed it [FreeBSD] is the only other operating system that is gaining, rather than losing share of the active sites found by the Web Server Survey.'"

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  1. Ah hell, by Eneff · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I don't have the "BSD is Dying" troll handy.

    We still have the Natalie Portman and SCO dying trolls, right?
    __

    Seriously, I don't know why BSD isn't taken more seriously as a server. Linux is insecure, whereas BSD...

    Damn, another troll.

    I give up.

  2. Might as well get this out of the way now... by Sevn · · Score: 4, Funny

    This doesn't show anything! I'm a big fanboy for:

    _____ -- put OS here

    That runs:

    _____ -- put web server here

    And it's just as reliable and good as FreeBSD.
    Hell, It's BETTER because:

    ___________________________-- put dubious statistics here

    _______ -- put marketing rhetoric here

    And besides, you can't do:

    ________ -- put proprietary technology here

    with FreeBSD anyway so it's worthless!!!

    --
    For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
  3. News at 11... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...nearly 2 million active sites are dying :)

  4. Re:*BSD is dying by kace · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying ... Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. ... All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share.

    I think I get it now. These trolls -- they're all government accountants!

    "It depends what the meaning of the word 'more' is."

  5. OS/2 IS DYING! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What more proof do you need?!

  6. Re:Hang on by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Here's the situation as it stands:
    • Uday is dead.
    • Qusay is dead
    • BSD is dead
    There you have it folks. All dead.