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Wind River Announces It Likes Linux After All
onecrazyfoo writes "Wind River is going to start supporting Linux in the embedded market. Pretty big news from the largest company in the embedded tools market. What makes it even more interesting is the fact that they have been very anti-Linux and outspoken about it in the past. You can read more about their announcement at LinuxDevices.com." I'm guessing this has come about because of recent changes in the company.
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My MCSE ass also has a job. Too bad I am gainfully employed and making 3 times the median income while you are asking other slashbots why they got fired.
SHUT UP VIRGIN NERDS.
Ha. Just wait till SCO wins. Then you can eat your damn GPL. This company just decided to go bankrupt. I guess QNX will be getting a lot more business.
i find it strange that all these companies that are supposedly the biggest in their area are ones that i have never heard of. i mean who has heard of "wind river"? or, whats that company called... "intel" i think... who are they? and also that one company... the one i can't think of.
Don't worry, they won't, you egotistic BSD wanker. Thats right, they are not coming back. Start crying .... now!
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It's free. Anyone can use linux. You have no right to bitch and moan. If it was up to me, you wouldnt be able to use linux, or own a computer.
Which is nice.
You pompous homosexual jackass.
The 3Com rep laughed at me when I asked if I could put Linux on the NBX100. Maybe now someone can fix that one user per phone 'bug'.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
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
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.
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.
I just deleted redhat off my system and I am installing FreeBSD again as I type this. All I wanted to do was test the new 2.6 kernel but non of the modules worked. When I upgraded modutils it still would not work and now wont boot 2.4. My guess is RedHat put some of the config files in the wrong place.
Anyway my point is Linux haas serious drawbacks and in my opinion is going downhill in quality from over-complexity and alot of amaturish programs that are crap like you mentioned. Yes some like Apache and Samba rock but weaknesses exist.
I believe WindRiver sells a very high quality OS that I can not think of the name for that is reliable and very tiny.
. Windows sucks in alot of area's and I deleted off my system but Unix is not the answer for everything either. Unix and particularly BSD was made by hackers for hackers. Everything is a file concept is also nice for system administrator since you can move mountains with scripts. However it matters what you do with it. I am pissed that all the software is only for Windows and that Microsoft killed all competition. I would like several different types of pc's running different OS's. For the ignorant IT managers who claim integration= savings provide no proof. Many have become %100 MCSE NT shops and end up increasing money on software support and integration costs. Schools particularly who used to run Novel and Macintosh. I only use FreeBSD because I like to hack and develop software. I hate being tied in to a windows gui but that is me.
I wish the fanatics would just grow up sometime. A gui without X or new libraries for Java to compete agaisnt .net would be a start.
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