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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.'"
And I don't have the "BSD is Dying" troll handy.
We still have the Natalie Portman and SCO dying trolls, right?
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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.
Does OS X count, when they sum up all the BSD machines?
I fought the corporate America, and the corporate America bought the law.
Same Story Different Spin
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Maybe nobody was reading Slashdot on Sunday:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07
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5 of the top 10 hosting companies in terms of reliability were FreeBSD based
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When in actuality the netcraft article says this:
"Intriguingly, all of the Top 5 placed sites run the FreeBSD operating system"
Slight difference there.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
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.
I wonder how much the FUD from SCO might have contributed to this ...
I found this article hopeful.. at first. It seems to suggest that the only reason BSD sites are increasing is because of mainly Yahoo and a few other hosting sites who use BSD. Either way, if Yahoo uses it.. people who work at Yahoo must learn to administer it. So that's good.. I guess.
Now, as for the professional "anon cows" who seem to dedicate their creativity to explaining the end of BSD, these arguments are disingenious. Mainly, the only thing that may or may not be dying is the current power structure behind the three named distributions (open, free, net). The centralized structure may eventually die.. and then BSD will just adopt the decentralized model ala Linux.
saying FreeBSD is dying would be like saying "Latin is dying" back when it started branching into its current variants. By making such statements.. one just shows how little they grasp what BSD is. Maybe people don't speak Latin today... but they certainly speak Spanish or Italian. In the future, people may not have a Main Office to hold their "I heart BSD" rallies.. but they will be using it.
I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE as a server/router solution. I've talked with linux users about al the amazing features it has and the stability it offers. All of have switched to FreeBSD. If you want to install something, you just look up your port in the ports list, you type: make install distclean, and you are ready. It automatically downloads it from a ftp server, if the first is down, it checks for a mirror site. It checks for all necessary dependencies and installs that too. I started with Mandrake linux and after that i'm in FreeBSD land. Never looked back since. Oh did i mention it has the Unreal Tournament and Quake3 server in the ports? One "make install" away for pure gaming haven for you and all your friends =P
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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."
What we really need is more downmod options, like "Stupid fool", "Moron", "Cum-gargling gutterslut" or "Too inbred to think". Clearly these would be more specific to the type of BSD troll who links to early-90s filesystem research papers and claims that it has any relevance today.
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My other computer is your IIS server.
Only other than what? It turns out, if you follow links, that Win2k3 server is the other gaining OS. They go on to say this:
Woo, 1/20th of their new sales come from previously linux sites.
*Makes hand-wank gesture*
Is it just me or does the *BSD is Dying troll seem like he has real problems
It's easy to disassociate the nameserver from the OS using the ports tree so it's easy to upgrade the system and more secure since you can run in a change-root.
See this USENET post.
I'm involved in an Oracle on Solaris/sparc to Linux/Intel migration, and I can't but thinking why not also FreeBSD for the enterprise? It has the fibre HBA drivers for SAN, it has a volume manager, it has a very stable filesystem (moreso than ext2/3), it can run Oracle with Linux emulation libraries, has SMP, a fantastic TCP/IP stack, easy installation/upgrading of ports & packages.
I never used FreeBSD until a few months ago when I tried to get my favorite, OpenBSD, up on a very weird 1U Intel based server I picked up on eBay from a failed telco. Versions 2.9 to 3.3 of OBSD wouldn't work, it would hang in the idle loop FreeBSD 5.x has been running fine on it (don't know why)
What more proof do you need?!
Read your own troll, idiot.
Yes. Debian's installs often provide run-time configuration based on a few simple questions as well (with reasonable defaults).
URPMI also installs from source, more opaque than Debian installs but often with more useful collections of patches and/or options preloaded, and you can always do the rebuild process by hand to suggest things to configure.
More typing, of course, but TANSTAAFL.
I suppose you could always try Debian FreeBSD and see how you get along.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
I've found FreeBsd to be a nice stable platform which I run my business on. No dowtime due to kernels oops. It just gets up and runs and runs and runs...
Yeah ok this is a pimp but FreeBSD just works and the package management is only second to debian (which I think is being ported)
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Netcraft is dying!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
> I gotta chime in here. It really pisses me off
> that FreeBSD does not let you (by default) [make update]
Just a thought, but did you even *consider* installing "portupgrade"? It just happens to be a little program to automatically upgrade ports. My apologies if you were just trolling.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
- Uday is dead.
- Qusay is dead
- BSD is dead
There you have it folks. All dead."SCO is dying" a troll? Hell, they're being a bit loud about it, but they are definately starting to go through the death throes.
In a year or two from now... I'd expect "BSD is dying" might be replaced with "SCO is dying"... and then it'll only be funny 'cause SCO will be long past dead by then (as Slashdot newbies say "SCO-who?")
OK, I already know I'm stupid, so please don't feel compelled to point that out, BUT... Aren't these statistics based on IP addresses? If so, does anyone know how many actual boxes comprise the 2 mil sites?