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FreeBSD 10-Year Anniversary Tonight
regs writes "There's a free 10-year anniversary party for FreeBSD tonight. Should be an interesting place to meet-and-greet. The venue is jwz's wonderful nightclub, The DNA Lounge. Of course, if you're not in the Bay Area to start with, you probably can't make it." Bearing that in mind ...
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Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest 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 hobbyist 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 dead
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"Do not stand at my hard disk and forever weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you reboot in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my hard disk and forever cry.
I am not there. "
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Never let your emotions get mixed up with something as silly as a computer
operating system. It isn't healthy. So BSD fails. Big whoop. Deal with it and move on.
Hope this helps.
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You mean all the BSD is dying posts? It's not as if anyone takes it seriously. I hope not, anyway. All I see it as, is a bit of cheeky banter between the Linux and BSD fans. The BSD people give it as well as receive it, y'know.
What do you poor *BSD people do to deserve this? All the trolls, I mean. I guess there is no denying there are a lot of bad attitudes, but is it so much worse than the Linux community?
Newsflash for you: it is the Linux community which is doing all the trolling. Who knows whether it's envy, spite, or just plain malice... but the Linux Fanboy Club of America certainly wants *BSD to go away.
I tend to get the feeling that the people who troll BSD genuinely dislike some BSD or have some personal reason to do so (other than being stupid).
Whether or not they use Linux is besides the point. That is not the reason they are trolling.
They might have a higher chance of using Linux if for example, they asked a newbie question on a BSD list can were told to RTFM, and promptly switched to Linux, or they got sick of BSD users telling them how much faster BSD runs Linux binaries than Linux does... I don't know.
I mean lets face it - no disrespect to BSD, but Linux's biggest threat is Windows. So its about attitudes rather than the technical merits of the OS.
No this is something different. There is cheeky banter between rational Linux and BSD fans, and then there are these deranged people spending hours writing these elaborate trolls and fishing around for old ones, and spending all this time posting them EVERY time a BSD story is posted. No, I don't take it seriously of course... you have to feel sorry for them in a way.
When you're attempting to troll consistency is the key.
What did BSD fans do to deserve it?
How about this: spewing endless rhetoric about how BSD is somehow more "stable" than Linux (cannot be proved, and my Debian and Slackware boxes have never crashed), how the GPL prevents people from selling commercial software (hello Brett Glass), and all sorts of other nonsense.
BSD is great, but the zealots are laughable.