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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Slight error in story posting

[Sevn]

5 of the top 10 hosting companies in terms of reliability were FreeBSD based

When in actuality the netcraft article says this:

"Intriguingly, all of the Top 5 placed sites run the FreeBSD operating system" :)

Slight difference there.

Re:So Much For *BSD Is Living

[nutznboltz]

AT&T filed suit against Berkeley Software, claiming that proprietary code agreements had been haphazardly violated. In the same year, BSD filed countersuit, reciprocating bad intentions and fueling internal rivalry

Oh and Linux has no problems with lawsuits.

Theo de Raadt

You've got RMS, don't talk about Theo.

BSD's filesystem implementation to be "very poorly performing."

Obsolete refernce, doesn't mention softupdates.

rapid, decentralized development models are inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development.

The Linux kernel development has to push everything through Linus so you've got bottlenecks too.

corporations and coders alike to reap profits without reciprocating the goodwill of open-source

You've got LindowsOS so don't talk about corporate greed.

The failure of BSD culminated in the resignation of Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith from the FreeBSD core team.

So all the current success is not happening, huh?

Is it just me or does the *BSD is Dying troll seem like he has real problems

Re:Does Mac OS X count?

[agent dero]

On Netcraft MacOS X shows up as MacOS X and in the server string it states "Darwin"

So no, they are not including MacOS X :-)

Re:FreeBSD is very alive!!!

[bugg]

It is very unfair, in my opinion, to refer to the process of system call translation (the driving force behind FreeBSD's linuxulator, which enables, for those of you who don't know, software *compiled for Linux* to run on FreeBSD- of note only for the Linux software that does not have source available) as emulation. It is binary compatibility of the highest order. Simply put, it does little more than translate syscall numbers on the fly, also adjusting for things like differences in arguments. Quickly sizing up the FreeBSD system source tree right now, the code for linux compatiblity comes in at under 256KB. The overhead per system call of the linuxulator is not measured in fractions of a second but rather in instructions. Add to that the possiblity that FreeBSD may be doing the system call itself faster, or be more responsive for other reasons, and you quickly see that there's no reason to assume the footing is unequal because the binaries were compiled for Linux.