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The OpenBSD 3.4 Song: Theo Sings Back-up
shking writes "Theo has pre-released the OpenBSD 3.4 song. It was written, arranged & recorded by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis of the Plaid Tongued Devils.
You can find the new song at www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html. Enjoy."
www.TheDevils.com
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
How can BSD be dying when it has a mascot like this?! Linux needs to get its act together if it's going to compete with the kind of hot chicks and gorgeous babes that BSD has to offer!
You just can't take Linux seriously when its fronted by losers like these. You Linux groupies need to find some sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little cock teaser. Even this old bearded Unix guru is apparently unable to take his eyes off her!
With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you will have people queuing up to buy open source products. Look! This guy can't get in there fast enough with her in the doorway! Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin! Don't you wish you could get one of these? Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!
After some tinkering from the community this might actually make the Billboard Top 20.
so I switched from my favorite web radio station to listen to this and I thought it sounded like a children's song. so I went back to the station and this was playing.
;)
I've never heard this song before, but it seemed much more appropriate in my opinion
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
so where is the bittorrent link?
a slut did tulsa
This one is no doubt my favourite OpenBSD song so far. BTW, did anyone else find similarities between the "rap part" of the song and some Eminem track (can't remember the name) ? Same rhythm and rhymes sounded the same (different words, obviously). Was that on purpose or just a pure coincidence ?
News must be lacking today....
I don't think Theo said or wrote that. :)
It's, however, absolutely true...
The Tlog - a technology blog
Blimey for a moment I thought Theo Kojak was back, singing "If.."
Who luvs ya baby..
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
yeah, right, your going to convince me to stop listening to Music that Doesn't Suck for some theo song?
-- dieman - Scott Dier
You people are so silly. These sorts of things take away time that could be better spent discussing vi vs. emacs, Linux vs. Gnu/Linux, and Kirk vs. Picard.
It's a good thing the "humor" icon was used in this article. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known what to think about this. "It's funny, laugh." Good advice.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Your darned tootin it is.... asswipe.
<\american>
Saying Android is a family of phones is akin to saying Linux is a family of PCs.
Those of you with a weak stomach might not want to click on Stallman singing.
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
For everyone sake (and to preserve everyone's sanity) I certainly hope this isn't like RMS's free software song!
I'm sure most people know this by now, but if you're looking for web radio, www.shoutcast.com is a great place to look.
They have everything broken down by category and sub-category so you'll be able to find something you like.
This new story could have been a great lead-in:
How long before the RIAA finds this MP3 on your hard drive and sues you?
Better yet, how about a song praising Linux, then ask:
Who sues you first?
1) RIAA
2) SCO
3) Cowboy Neal
This story could have so much mileage...
Sir Clippy of Twokay was swearin'
Through the forests of Washingtonhood
Cause none of these lusers
could friggin spell "users"
And disabled his dumb ass for good.
Damn I need more coffee...
*blinking cursor*
For those who cant download the songs, the OpenBsd mirrors mirror the songs now, in addition to openbsd./
Heres one mirror:
http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/OpenBSD/songs
We have detected some SCO IP illegally used in your recently released "OpenBSD Song". The musical note designated by the letter C is the property of SCO, as evidenced in its usage in our company name, which is copyrighted, and in our company song, "C Us Sue the Hell Out of U". You must cease and desist from publishing this song or pay the licensing fee of $699/instance of the C note in your song.
We may experience some slight turbulence and then...explode. -Capt. Mal Reynolds
How did this make the front page? Someone should tell CowboyNeal to update the catagories so we can opt out of OpenBSD song announcements.
Smeghead every day of the week.
Stolen from:t .html
http://www.hamline.edu/~wnk/humor/microsof
I Am The Very Model of a Microsoft Executive
(By Brad Rhodes, with inspiration from Lincoln Spector's "The Pirates of
Pentium" and apologies to Sir William Gilbert...)
Bill Gates:
I am the very model of a Microsoft Executive
Work sixteen hours ev'ry shift on days that are consecutive
I make a line of software that is of the highest quality
But leave in bugs to fix in upgrades in perpetuality
Though some might claim that we compete in ways that are not very just
That's just vindictive rumor spun by folks who can't compete with us
Besides they cannot prove a thing, no judge will ever take their side
We'll crush them with our lawyers known for litigation far and wide.
Men's Chourus:
He'll crush them with his lawyers known for litigation far and far and wide!
Gates:
My coders work a schedule bordering on impropriety
But they'll still work for peanuts til they're vested in entirety
I'm sure that you will all agree that this is all inde-cu-tive
That I'm the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
Chorus:
I'm sure that you will all agree that this is all inde-cu-tive
He is the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
Gates:
We made our windows system one which we hold in propriety
And tweak it every now and then to screw up Lotus 1-2-3
Developing for Windows makes our competition often frown
They haven't any choice -- our system is the only game in town.
We'll use people's inventions that will make our software sell the best
Idea is the first step but the market is the real test
And though we may use other's thoughts and intellectual property
Stealing's such a nasty word, we like to call it R&D.
Chorus:
Stealing's such a nasty word, he likes to call it R&-R&D.
Gates [faster]:
My business tactics are compared with Henry Ford and Genghis Kahn
They built me up from nerdy kid to billionaire and then beyond
And while my competition spews out words full of invec-u-tive
I am the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
Chorus:
And while his competition spews out words full of invec-u-tive
He is the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Not bad at all, these songs are getting better. Good work guys!! The bit that caught my attention was in the middle. Sounded like something Weird Al would make!
...
Now if only we can get the Linux developers drunk at a karaoke bar
hi, my name is...what? my name is...who? my name is...Bruce Perens hi, my name is
huh? my name is...what? my name is...Bruce Perens
Excuse me
Can I have the attention of the class for one second
hi kids, do you like Slashdot and the Beanies?(yeah yeah yeah)
wanna see me stick ASCII birds on the end of my penis? (uh huh)
wanna copy me and do exactly like i did? (yeah yeah)
try 'sid=k22320inchfan and get fucked up worse than my site is?
MySQL's dead weight, it crashes more often than rail freight
but i cant figure out which one out of Taco and Hemos i wanna imitate (umm)
and RMS said (Bruce Perens you a freebaser)
uh uh (then what's wit' that fucken beard, man you never heard of a razor)
well since age two i felt like i'm someone new
'cuz i hung my original GNU from the top of the Slashdot Cruiser
got told off and ripped the Slash code off
and made myself technocrat net so the world can hear me blow my load off
i'll smoke a fat pound of grass and talk out my ass
and delete any l33t troll who never got modded down fast
come here slut (Perens wait a minute that's my girl, dog)
i dont give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off
hi, my name is...
what? my name is...who? my name is...Bruce Perens hi, my name is huh? my name is...
what? my name is...Bruce Perens
my stockbroker wanted me to make a quick killin'
thanx a lot, now I'm sittin on a pot of VA Linux stock that used to be worth a million
so i smacked him in his face with a hammer, slammed his balls in a scanner
and beat him so badly he's fucked up like Taco's grammer
walked in Slashdot, had my jacket fastened up
flamed my impersonator and stuck my dick in a plastic cup
extra-terrestrial, runnin' over pedestrians, in a green SUV
while they screamin (shit that's the Cruiser!)
ninety-nine percent of my life i was trolled to
i just found out Eric Raymond does more dope than i do (damn)
i told her i'd grow up to be a famous slashbot
become quite rich when the ipo dust has settled and spend it all on crack rocks.
you know you blew up when the geeks rush your stands
and try to touch your hands like some screamin anime fans
this guy at the Geek Compound asked me for my autograph (dude, can I get your autograph?)
so i signed it 'Dear Emmett, Thanks for the support, craphound.
'hi, my name is...
what? my name is...who? my name is...Bruce Perens
hi, my name is huh? my name is...
what, my name is...Bruce Perens
stop the backup tape, this kid needs to be locked away (get him)
Linus, don't just stand there, get the MPAA!
i'm not ready to leave, it's too scary to die
i'd rather be carried inside a Slashdot Cruiser and buried alive
am i comin or goin? i can barely decide
i just smoked a bunch of Drano crystal, dare me to drive? (go ahead)
all my life i was very boring
i ain't had a woman in years, my wrists ache from Karma whoring
clothes rip like the Sultan of Swat
i spit when i talk, my name ends in a dot (no it doesn't)
when i was little i used to masturbate quite an amount
(how you gonna keep on posting mom I bitchslapped your account!)
I lie awake and night and think "Is my asshole bigger than the guy in that goatsex link?"
and shoot myself in the ass till its pink (bang) till i'm sick
and by the way when you see Fascdot, tell him that i slit his PRick
hi, my name is...what? my name is...who? my name is...Bruce Perens hi, my name is
huh? my name is...what, my name is...Bruce Perens
The only correct answer to "Kirk vs Picard" is "Sisko!"
Honourable Mention for: "Sulu!"
The page doesn't say what license it was released under. What are the odds that its under the BSD License?
As of 10/06/03, I hate COBOL developers.
I know that the company anthem was once (and for all I know still is, but I hope not) commonplace in Japanese companies, and that the company in the US best-known among geeks for maintaining the same tradition is IBM. But where does it come from?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Seriously though, a theme song?
Damn these people need Girlfriends or hobbies or paying jobs or some god damn thing!
This isn't front page news. At the most, it's section news, but doesn't belong on the front page. There's much more important things going on, such as SCO going after SGI, and yet the news about the OpenBSD song is on the front page? WTF? I'll probably get modded down for this by some moderator who thinks this is offtopic or flamebait, but I think it's a legitimate question.
So, you know the sexuality of operating systems and spend time with scantily-clad male executives? Hey, whatever does it for you...
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience
Anyone have a bittorent link?
Another year of waiting until my boss forgets about this so I can try recommending OpenBSD again.
.. for now. What? No I didn't say anything after the word boxes."
"Yes boss, it *is* a quality operating system, the guys who write it are just having a little fun. No they don't 'have fun' by leaving hacker back doors in the OS, they just put a song on the CDs that's all. No it's not installed as part of the operating system and no, customers won't hear it when they visit our web page. No Windows doesn't come with any songs and it's going on the new boxes
I have a torrent up and running. Go here:
. mp 3.torrent
http://torrent.andrewhitchcock.org/files/song34
link
That didn't even make any sense.
Go home.
for someone that's been posting so much lately, you sure seem to be having difficulty in your karma-gaining efforts.
This song is as much use to the cause of the Open Source community as a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest.
--This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
I really wish Theo wouldnt make a wonderfull software product the vessel of his political opinion. /shrug, im always wrong anyway.
I suppose that my song will now become less and less popular, eventually sliding into obscurity...
so is that web address supposed to be Andrew Hitchcock or Andre Whitchcock? /me prepares to get modded off-topic.
my pet machine
You had me on the floor in stitches at that story.
Did you remember to bookmark all the tranny porn from thehun.net onto his machine and script it so that it would load all the pages upon login? Prolly about the closest thing to sex he and all the other fuckwit geeks out there can find...fap fap fap
Cheers,
Your worst fear
I've seen the Plaid Tongued Devils at least a dozen of times in Calgary and Saskatoon -- nothing boils my Eastern European blood better than them.
We used to get together -- Bosnians, Serbians, Croatians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Romanians, whatever else you can think of from the Balkan Peninsula, in Lydia's in S'toon every time they had a concert and just get right pissed...
I quit smoking after one of their concerts -- was so hung over the next day I had to celebrate it somehow!
Ahh, good times being an undergrad!
Andrew Hitchcock
What do you think I am... French?
Andrew
(hehe, just kidding (just so you don't think I'm some stupid French-hating American (don't want to propagate that stereotype), I have nothing wrong with the French))
"Brits have bad teeth"
"French smell and are assholes"
What a clever, witty and incisive response. Totally worthy of your country. Instead of refuting the points with accuracy and style, you fall apart straight away. This is why the world thinks so badly of Americans.
I'm a New Zealander, and we don't have any untrue stereotypes.
'Scuse me, my sheep needs me.
But it has a long way to go to Hour of Slack XXX version
this song is hilarious: http://stickie.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op =getit&lid=2
LEECH AXSS featuring KUNT, rap about hacking you.
Author: LEECH AXSS
Version: Filesize: 3.07 MB
Lyrics:
where is my snare?
i have no snare in my headphones
oh there is my snare
in my audio warez folder
hohohoho
leech axss, leech axss, leech, leech axss
free BSD is da shit to me
linux - stick it up in you ass, you get me
you came to fuck with me in the i.r.c.
that i didnt gave you access to my ftp
we will do with a fucking +v in the nick
you might as well be sucking my motherfucking dick
motd says that you are lame
so prevent the pain and get a daisy chain
leech axss - aint no dude to fuck with
leech axss - aint no dude to jack with
cause im downloading chicks with divx avi
and im loading edonkey my windows swap file
yo yo yo, where's you're 0day
you aint got no 0day, because you are gay
because you are afraid and so easy to break
and make it easy to take over you pc and fuck it on the streets
leech axss is coming at you,
your box is mine in minute or two,
your firewalls are tumbling down
leeching all the 0day that is down
DBS in you MP3s, you gotta ph34r my l33t-o skillz
coming inside the megabytes, leech axss you just cant fight
leech axss, leech axss, leech, leech axss
hohohoho
just put you email in the password box
now i got you info, biatch, thx a lot
im gonna send you a motherfucking email bomb
u.s. your i.s.p dadadamdadam
trojan horses and virus are coming at you
go sex is the site where you gonna re-route
meanwhile i hax and gain the root
"fuck you" is the message before you reboot
oops, did i open your cd tray
oops, did i fucking read your mind
2000 messages in you icq
and your soundcard just lost the irq
these are the w1ck3d ways of leech axss
i'm l33t, you're nothing but your daddy's balls wet
check me in my #channel as me operate
i get more net sex than my nigguh bill gates
leech axss is coming at you,
your box is mine in minute or two,
your firewalls are tumbling down
leeching all the 0day that is down
DBS in you MP3s, you gotta ph34r my l33t-o skillz
coming inside the megabytes, leech axss you just cant fight
leech axss is coming at you,
your box is mine in minute or two,
your firewalls are tumbling down
leeching all the 0day that is down
DBS in you MP3s, you gotta ph34r my l33t-o skillz
coming inside the megabytes, leech axss you just cant fight
control alt del
IAAL
One word: SMP.
up over and over? Geezus, every single bsd story gets this post, and every single time it gets modded up. The chick isn't even that hot, either. Damn.
You forgot Captain Pike, you trek n00b53r.
Kids...
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
Man walks into a bar. Barman says, " 'ere mate, did you know you've got a steering wheel sticking out of your pants (trousers uk ok :)."
;-)
"Yes", he replied, "It's driving me nuts".
cLive
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
Did he work alone, or was Babelfish involved?
"Neque enim lex est aequior ulla, quam necis artifices arte perire sua."
Hah! Keep it up.
Mummy forget to change your diaper this morning?
...do the pictures that are going down the page next to the song lyrics like the psychedelic pictures that tell the story on the ELP album Tarkus?
And I thought my punched-card backup system was slow. What is the recording medium? 78s? How does he sing the binary files?
(Sorry, but a straight-line like that can't be ignored, and nobody else seems to have picked it up. I guess they all had good taste or something.)
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
I've been waiting for a vi v's emacs thread for this one. Stuff both of them OpenBsd uses Ed.
For those more interested in technology (than flames) read this article with Bill Joy about Ed.
peterrenshaw ~ Another Scrappy Startup
There is only the binary version on the page!
ahh. you have a diaper fetish. you like messing yourself and having your gay lover change your dia-pee?
you fucking cant touch that rant. you are a know nothing sub technical fucking troglodyte moron. shut your cakehole, or lay down the gauntlet and try to even come close to dispelling anything i say.
you litle pissant.
Show your support for the project by pre-ordering your OpenBSD 3.4 CDs today!
The release is set for November 1st.
(Fuck (me, that is (some good) (damn) ((lisp) programming) just (there)). Nice (work) ((boys).))
I live in Los Angeles (and make more money than you), and have NEVER heard anybody ever say "shucks" and be serious about it. You gotta do some research man.
Get your fill of nerdy software song parodies (filks), including several popular slashdot originals!
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I used to like the Script Kitty. But Theo's attitude is overshadowed only by his bad taste these days.
I don't mind the "BSD is dying" posts as long as they're funny and original. Like this one. :)
Anyway since SCO is ancient and old, with quality in Openserver varying, Mcbride picked the perfect babe to represent Openserver right here.
http://saveie6.com/
using openbsd as partisan propaganda just sucks
(...no longer considers using or supporting the openbsd [socialist/communist?] propaganda machine)Support the OpenBSD developers by getting a 3.4 CD $40 or for Europe EUR 45
There is a new Tshirt: 3
The new 3.4 poster is very nice too, get it for $10 US or EUR 14 in Europe
If you prefer OpenSSH, have a look at this new Tshirt OpenSSH 2 $20 or for Europe EUR 20
thank you.
Though I'd prefer Delta Goodrem to sing it.
You know somethings gone very bad when people do a song to promote technology.
I was at an MS conferance on converting apps to VB.net, thay were playing the "VB Rap Song". Don't know about the other delegates, but if MS need a bunch or rappers to try and make Visual Basic look cool i think it's time to choose C#.
I'd love to get the MP3 of it by the way, it was sooo bad.
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I'm with you 99%.
I dont understand, did DARPA write the song ?
Is it FUD all over again ?
shucks! shucks!shucks!shucks!
> This is why the world thinks so badly of Americans.
Because we respond in the same manner we are attacked? That's why America thinks so badly of Snotty Europeans (not all of them, just the uppity double-standard jerks, like you).
> Did he work alone, or was Babelfish involved?
Judging from the quality (or lack thereof), It was initially written in German, translated to Spanish, then Hungarian, then moron, on to Swahili then to English. And the grammar was bad even in German.
DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH? (I figured he'd understand better if only I spoke louder) Have you ever taken an English course? You would have been better off writing that in your native tongue & Babelfishing it to English, as that entire post made about 5% sense. (although "5% sense" makes no sense at all)
One of my first gigs as a break-fix techie was a small company that had a megalomaniacal CEO/President. He hired a guy to write a song that sings praises about our company, and he insisted that we sing it every morning in our group huddle, just prior to opening time. Fortunately, by the time I started there as an employee, he stopped doing that. But it was very funny/scary to hear that from an old-timer there.
> how to be American
- Get fat
- Get stupid
Order doesn't matter...
It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying, that ever hapless *BSD is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *BSD is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BSD community. The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of BSD 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 marketing 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 hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking.
Fact: *BSD is dying
What We Can Learn From BSD
By Chinese Karma Whore, Version 1.0
Everyone knows about BSD's failure and imminent demise. As we pore over the history of BSD, we'll uncover a story of fatal mistakes, poor priorities, and personal rivalry, and we'll learn what mistakes to avoid so as to save Linux from a similarly grisly fate.
Let's not be overly morbid and give BSD credit for its early successes. In the 1970s, Ken Thompson and Bill Joy both made significant contributions to the computing world on the BSD platform. In the 80s, DARPA saw BSD as the premiere open platform, and, after initial successes with the 4.1BSD product, gave the BSD company a 2 year contract.
These early triumphs would soon be forgotten in a series of internal conflicts that would mar BSD's progress. In 1992, 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. While AT&T and Berkeley Software lawyers battled in court, lead developers of various BSD distributions quarreled on Usenet. In 1995, Theo de Raadt, one of the founders of the NetBSD project, formed his own rival distribution, OpenBSD, as the result of a quarrel that he documents on his website. Mr. de Raadt's stubborn arrogance was later seen in his clash with Darren Reed, which resulted in the expulsion of IPF from the OpenBSD distribution.
As personal rivalries took precedence over a quality product, BSD's codebase became worse and worse. As we all know, incompatibilities between each BSD distribution make code sharing an arduous task. Research conducted at MIT found BSD's filesystem implementation to be "very poorly performing." Even BSD's acclaimed TCP/IP stack has lagged behind, according to this study.
Problems with BSD's codebase were compounded by fundamental flaws in the BSD design approach. As argued by Eric Raymond in his watershed essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, rapid, decentralized development models are inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development. BSD developers never heeded Mr. Raymond's lesson and insisted that centralized models lead to 'cleaner code.' Don't believe their hype - BSD's development model has significantly impaired its progress. Any achievements that BSD managed to make were nullified by the BSD license, which allows corporations and coders alike to reap profits without reciprocating the goodwill of open-source. Fortunately, Linux is not prone to this exploitation, as it is licensed under the GPL.
The failure of BSD culminated in the resignation of Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith from the FreeBSD core team. They both believed that FreeBSD had long lost its earlier vitality. Like an empire in decline, BSD had become bureaucratic and stagnant. As Linux gains market share and as BSD sinks deeper into the mire of decay, their parting addresses will resound as fitting eulogies to BSD's demise.
What you didn't mention is that you're currently unemployed due to your big mouth, you can't code worth a damn, the systems you're patching are at home, and your fat wife left you because you're an asshole.
muuuuuhhahahaha mu mu hahaha takin the bait.
So when is OpenBSD going to refund the US taxpayer's money that was taken from those "crazy people" at DARPA?
Ingrateful deadbeats.
MOM?!?
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
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 hobbyist dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Absolutely nothing short of a miracle could save *BSD at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Isn't BSD more or less dead? If I'm not mistaken, there is no longer any commercial support for BSD.
The *BSD Wailing Song:
What's left for me to see
In my ship I sailed so far
What can the answer be
Don't know what the questions are.
And after all I've done
Still I cannot feel the sun
Tell me save me
In the end our lost souls must repent.
I must know it is for certain
Can it be the final curtain
As long as the wind will blow
I'll be searching high and low.
Who knows what's really true
They say the end is so near
Why are we all so cruel
We just fill ourselves with fear.
And heaven and hell will turn
All that we love shall burn
Hear me trust me
In the end our lost sould must repent.
I must know it is for certain
Can it be the final curtain
As long as the wind will blow
I'll be searching high and low
Final curtain
Final curtain
until you guys went gangsta rap on it. damnit crazy openbsd canadians. hahahahha.
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel
OK, I get it, BSD IS DYING.
That's not fair. You paint with too broad a brush.
heh