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Busy BSD: New FreeBSD Status Report
edhall cut-and-pastes "After a six-month hiatus, a new
FreeBSD
Status Report has just been issued,
along with a promise to resume its bi-monthly publication.
As the report itself makes obvious, a lot has happened
over the last six months. Progress has been happening along many fronts; those groups making reports include: [snip] These are, of course, just the projects that remembered
to send in a report -- there are many more ongoing efforts
than listed here; see this
page for a fuller but not necessarily complete list
(you'll note that there are status reports for projects not listed there, such as the AMD64 port)."
You know, I had the exact same experience. Turns out I inserted the Mandrake CD upside-down. Once I put it in the right way, everything installed fine.
click here to see the ideal case mod for a system to your your *BSD!
I like the headline. Kudos.
Cat, the other, tastier white meat.
Don't worry, the only person getting frustrated about Linux (other than you) is this guy. Ha ha.
You fucking moron. Get off the Internet and go back to playing with Windows 95.
You fucking loser queers wouldn't know a great OS if a monopoly shoved it down your throat. Linux is for faggots, queers, commies and people who fuck their mothers, sisters and dogs. FreeBSD is the only *NIX OS even worth considering. Here's to Murray pounding that worthless little piece of shit Linus in his ass over and over again, like the little bitch he is. You fucking commie queers. Get a life. Just because an OS is beyond your technical expertise doesn't mean you need to spread lies about it. Go back to school and learn instead of getting frustrated and spreading FUD, code-commie cocksucking ass pumping jizz drinking faggot Linux users.
I wouldn't bother responding to all these trolls :(
I can't really imagine it, but I guess there is a guy out there somewhere who checks slashdot quite frequently, and has the postings in a file so that he can copy/paste and submit them every time (eg. the poems about BSD dying, and the one about how the developer quit the project).
Surely slashdot could check whether it's someone posting from the same IP each time? Maybe they could be banned? Perhaps anonymous posting could be removed, in the BSD section only?
It's a shame that every BSD story has such a high troll count. I often wonder who's doing it!
You dumbshit cum guzzling loser prison-bound bitch. Get off the Internet and go back to Windows 95.
The only thing dead around here is the greased Yoda shoved up your Tux-hole
You fucking loser queers wouldn't know a great OS if a monopoly shoved it down your throat. Linux is for faggots, queers, commies and people who fuck their mothers, sisters and dogs. FreeBSD is the only *NIX OS even worth considering. Here's to Murray pounding that worthless little piece of shit Linus in his ass over and over again, like the little bitch he is. You fucking commie queers. Get a life. Just because an OS is beyond your comprehension and technical expertise doesn't mean you need to spread lies about it. Go back to school and learn instead of getting frustrated and spreading FUD, code-commie cocksucking ass pumping jizz drinking faggot Linux users.
You fucking loser queers wouldn't know a great OS if a monopoly shoved it down your throat. Linux is for faggots, queers, commies and people who fuck their mothers, sisters and dogs. FreeBSD is the only *NIX OS even worth considering. Here's to Murray pounding that worthless little piece of crap Linus in his ass over and over again, like the little bitch he is. You fucking commie queers. Get a life. Just because an OS is beyond your comprehension and technical expertise doesn't mean you need to spread lies about it. Go back to school and learn something besides Windows 95 instead of getting frustrated and spreading FUD, code-commie cocksucking ass pumping jizz drinking faggot Linux users.
You fucking loser queers wouldn't know a great OS if a monopoly shoved it down your throat. Linux is for faggots, queers, commies and people who fuck their mothers, sisters and dogs. FreeBSD is the only *NIX OS even worth considering. Here's to Murray pounding that worthless little piece of crap Linus in his ass over and over again, like the little bitch he is. You fucking bitch commie queers. Get a life. Just because an OS is beyond your comprehension and technical expertise doesn't mean you need to spread lies about it. Go back to school and learn something besides Windows 95 instead of getting frustrated and spreading FUD, code-commie cocksucking ass pumping jizz drinking faggot Linux users.
You fucking loser queers wouldn't know a great OS if a monopoly shoved it down your throat. Linux is for faggots, queers, commies and people who fuck their mothers, sisters and dogs. FreeBSD is the only *NIX OS even worth considering. Here's to Murray pounding that worthless little piece of chickenshit Linus in his ass over and over again, like the little bitch he is. You fucking commie queers. Get a life. Just because an OS is beyond your comprehension and technical expertise doesn't mean you need to spread lies about it. Go back to school and learn something besides Windows 95 instead of getting frustrated and spreading FUD, code-commie cocksucking ass pumping jizz drinking faggot Linux users.
You fucking loser queers wouldn't know a great OS if a monopoly shoved it down your throat. Linux is for faggots, queers, commies and people who fuck their mothers, sisters and dogs. FreeBSD is the only *NIX OS even worth considering. Here's to Murray pounding that worthless little piece of crap Linus in his ass over and over again, like the little tunabitch he is. You fucking commie queers. Get a life. Just because an OS is beyond your comprehension and technical expertise doesn't mean you need to spread lies about it. Go back to school and learn something besides Windows 95 instead of getting frustrated and spreading FUD, code-commie cocksucking ass pumping jizz drinking faggot Linux users.
You fucking loser queers wouldn't know a great OS if a monopoly shoved it down your throat. Linux is for faggots, queers, commies and people who fuck their mothers, sisters and dogs. FreeBSD is the only *NIX OS even worth considering. Here's to Murray pounding that worthless little piece of crap Linus in his ass over and over again, like the little bitch he is. You fucking commie queers. Get a life. Just because an OS is beyond your comprehension and technical expertise doesn't mean you need to spread lies about it. Go back to school and learn something besides Windows 95 instead of getting frustrated and spreading FUD, code-commie cocksucking ass pounding jizz drinking faggot Linux users.
You fucking loser queers wouldn't know a great OS if a monopoly shoved it down your throat. Linux is for faggots, queers, commies and people who fuck their mothers, sisters and dogs. FreeBSD is the only *NIX OS even worth considering. Here's to Murray pounding that worthless little piece of crap Linus in his ass over and over again, like the little bitch he is. You fucking commie queers. Get a life. Just because an OS is beyond your comprehension and expertise doesn't mean you need to spread lies about it. Go back to school and learn something besides Windows 95 instead of getting frustrated and spreading FUD, code-commie cocksucking ass pumping jizz drinking faggot Linux users.
You fucking loser queers wouldn't know a great OS if a monopoly shoved it down your throat. Linux is for faggots, queers, commies and people who fuck their mothers, sisters and dogs. FreeBSD is the only *NIX OS even worth considering. Here's to Murray pounding that worthless little piece of crap Linus in his fudgehole over and over again, like the little bitch he is. You fucking commie queers. Get a life. Just because an OS is beyond your comprehension and technical expertise doesn't mean you need to spread lies about it. Go back to school and learn something besides Windows 95 instead of getting frustrated and spreading FUD, code-commie cocksucking ass pumping jizz drinking faggot Linux users.
But that doesn't explain why you keep posting those comments (other than you working, not being a teenager, and finding it funny - clearly you're an idiot).
Why do you feel the need to keep saying BSD is dying? Only because it's funny? Weird!
1. You can not play games on it.
You can play just about all the games that can be played on Linux.
2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
If your grandma knows how to use Linux, she can figure out FreeBSD. Most grandmas don't use computers at all.
3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
If X (which has been around longer than windows and has been fully functional from the start, quite unlike Windows) is not a GUI of any note, then Unix is "dying".
4. There is no support available for it.
There is support available for it, if you look.
5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
Linux is nothing more than a kernel. Linux distros are nothing more than an assortment of fragmented open source projects with a similar GNU license + bits that have been ripped from the BSD's. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Darwin all have a team of people who regularly maintain and improve each project.
6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
You are a total moron if you really believe that.
7. You have to compile everything and know C.
If you want to compile everything, you can. If you don't, you can download everything in binary form off the appropriate site or just buy an installation CD. If you want to build Linux and the accompanying userland, your only choice is Gentoo, which depends on Python and takes one hell of a lot longer to build than any of the BSDs. You do not have to know C to use any Unix-like OS.
Just like Linux, the BSD's offer Perl, Python, Fortran, BASIC, Haskell, Lisp, PHP, assembly, Java, C#, Forth, Tcl/Tk, Ruby, Bison/yacc, awk, Postscript, Scheme, Octave, Eiffel, Rexx, Cobol, you name it. Not a programmer? That's your problem.
8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
Support for crumby hardware is not forthcoming. Support for good hardware is often better than Linux (NetBSD was first to introduce USB) and a some notable commercial Unices available for the Intel platform. Linux probably gets a lot of driver code from the BSD's to start with.
9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all offer Linux emulation that often allows Linux apps to perform better than they would running natively.
10. It is dying.
Only if you're a Slashdot retard.
Also because I enjoy telling the truth!
You gotta understand psychology to understand these trolls. Linux geeks base their whole self esteem around thinking they are better than people. It starts in high school, when they invent reasons to think they are better than those of us who had fun and got laid. They like linux because they like to advocate anything. If they didn't have it, they would have to face how pathetic they really are. I also think its funny how the one auto-troll mentions how linux is better because of the decentralized development. Their "de-centralized development" has lead to stolen IP in their code base. will BSD users have this problem? 50 million people don't contribute to the FreeBSD kernel, just about 30, and they are alltrue professionals
Some of my favorites included in the list are:
AMD64 port
Java Project
ACPI Status Report
FreeBSD ports monitoring system
Just to be a little off-topic, while installing my new Highpoint 1540 SATA RAID controller this afternoon, I noticed an option to mount (yeah, "man mount". I read the article, too.) in the man pages that I hadn't noticed before, mount -o snapshot lets you mount up a snapshot of a filesystem.
I'm sure it's been around forever, but it's new to me! Check it out. It appears to just about rival the software from NetApp, etc.. in usefulness for creating filesystem snapshots.
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
This looks like everybody is happy because the *BSD is having some problems. If *BSD is crap, most Linux distros are crap as well.
I wish someone would talk serious here, and not yelling that *BSD is dying just because they feel bad because they know that mandrak and friends is for losers.
Linux geeks base their whole self esteem around thinking they are better than people.
If that's a typical Linux geek, they've got to be the most pathetic people I've come across.
So this is why FreeBSD is 'dying'. Or maybe are you talking about this instead? .Trolls.
yhbt
Consider that because of the many 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 infinitesimally 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.