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OS Review: NetBSD 1.6.2 on SPARC64
JigSaw writes "NetBSD is the king of operating system portability, running on 40+ different hardware platforms, including x86, MIPS, and even the Sega Dreamcast. So it comes as no surprise that among the supported platforms, NetBSD runs on Tony Bourke's Sun Ultra 5. Here is his review."
Linux runs on SPARC too...
It is official.
Netcraft confirms: FreeBSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered FreeBSD distribution community when IDC confirmed that FreeBSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Linux distribution versions. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that FreeBSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. FreeBSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent Linux distribution study.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict FreeBSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: FreeBSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for FreeBSD because FreeBSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for FreeBSD. As many of us are already aware, FreeBSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD Live is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time 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.
FreeBSD Live project leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of FreeBSD Live. How many users of OpenBSD are there? Let's see. The number of FreeBSD Live versus OpenBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 OpenBSD users. FreeBSD Live posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of OpenBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of FreeBSD Live. A recent article put FreeBSD Live distribution at about 80 percent of the market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD Live users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of half-baked FreeBSD apps, abysmal sales and so on, many development companies is going out of business and will probably be taken over by another company who will sell another troubled product. Now FreeBSD is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that FreeBSD has steadily declined in market share. FreeBSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If FreeBSD is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. FreeBSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, FreeBSD is dead.
Fact: FreeBSD is dying
shut the fuck up, osnews is better then slashdot
-- Hemos.
I've often wondered why some companies choose to use Linux when they are unwilling to show their source code. It clearly has not been to the advantage of the companies involved to be exposed as not complying with the GPL. It is risky business decision to choose to ignore license issues.
Perhaps more attention will be given to the *BSD family with it's technically very good OS and a free license.
EVERY TIME I see a thread here about a company pushing a Linux-based product, I ask the same question: Is there ANY compiler/linker/library product I can purchase that is guaranteed by its manufacturer to be UN-contaminated by the GPL?
Does the Intel C/C++ "compiler" for Linux make such a claim?
Does the Metrowerks C/C++ "compiler" make such a claim?
Novell/Mono/Ximian/C#/.NET???
ANYONE??????????
How long do you predict it will be before all rights to fair use are vanquished from the Internet?
can be found here.
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