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DragonFly BSD Announced
JoshRendlesham writes "Matt Dillon announced today on the freebsd-hackers mailing list the creation of the DragonFly BSD project. It seeks to build on the work of FreeBSD 4.x, including a rewrite of the packaging and distribution system, among other goals."
YOU ARE ALSO PROBABLY SOME SORT OF NIGGER
but not a gay nigger.
those gay nigger guys suck my smelly asshole.
Elegy For *BSD
I am a *BSD user
and I try hard to be brave
That is a tall order
*BSD's foot is in the grave.
I tap at my toy keyboard
and whistle a happy tune
but keeping happy's so hard,
*BSD died so soon.
Each day I wake and softly sob
Nightfall finds me crying
Not only am I a zit faced slob
but *BSD is dying.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you BSD fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a BSD box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this BSD box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various BSD machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a BSD box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the BSD machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that BSD is a "superior" machine.
BSD addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a BSD over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
... like another hole in the head.
:(
Oh well, it's probably about hurt egos again.
- Hubert
I gotta chime in here: /usr/ports
It really pisses me off that FreeBSD does not let you (by default)
cd
make update
It tells you that you need to futs around and configure things. If I wanted to do that, I'd install stuff by hand. I just want to update my ports - I don't think that's too much to ask.
Yes, I've submitted that as a bug. Yes, it was rejected.
Yeah, because cvsup is such a difficult thing to figure out.
Dinivin
Apple Mac OS X gives you ALL the benefits of BSD and Linux and Windows all wrapped up in the easiest to use GUI, and the most advanced operating system currently available. Stuff like BSD and Linux are fine if you are a computer hobbyist, and Windows is okay if you are a secretary taking notes, but OS X is the de facto gold standard for true advanced computing tasks. Scientists, programmers, media artists, and everyone who wants to be on the leading edge of software use OS X. You should too.
Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?
The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.
Surely this is a mistake. It must be ... It has to be, becaise we all know: BSD Is Dying
Did someone forget to give this guy the memo?
Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - Ovidius
Tom Cruise is realeasing the DyingBSD, a new BSD flavor ...
Go and get it before it is over .... ... sorry my pour english ... :^P
Hmmm. My best guess is that BSD is dying.
Did you know that most BSD people are fags? Ghey butt fucking cock smokers.
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.
Realistically speaking it is dead.