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Top 5 Submerging Technologies Pinpointed
An anonymous reader writes "Computerworld makes its picks of five 'submerging' (i.e. dying) technologies, as the article asks 'Where are the review committees for obsolete technologies?' The picks, made by 'corporate IT managers and analysts', include Windows 9x, client/server computing and Visual Basic 6."
The Linux Middle Click has been driving me nuts!! I hate trying to open a new tab by middle clicking a link in mozilla/konq and accidentally pasting a link and being taken off somehwere where I don't want to be. How can I disable the paste function of the Linux Middle Click?! It's my single biggest pet peeve with Linux.
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
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But the web server for the article according to Netcraft is Solaris, so perhaps Solaris is Ill and about to die?
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It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying. Everyone knows 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 erosion 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
"Speaking of dying technologies"... do we even dare mention BSD?
BSD's already dead. ;-)
Doesn't count!
Something few have noticed that died. The old Slashdot search feature. Welcome the new Search Slashdot using Google.
Nobody has FreeBSD listed yet? 8^)
I for one welcome our new Search Slashdot Using Google Overlords...
Oh please lord, let this be the last time I troll with something as dumb as this
Subject says it all.