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FreeBSD: Not Exactly Dead

Posted by timothy on from the the-kind-of-death-we-long-for dept.

quantumice writes "It would seem that despite being dead and there only being six of us who use it, FreeBSD has clocked up nearly 2.5 million active sites according to Netcraft. So by my estimates that must mean that I and each of my 5 friends run 416 667 sites. That might explain my high bandwidth usage."

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  1. Re:I have.. by Korpo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, well...

    My FreeBSD install died on a PII machine when trying to install a considerable amount of packages (not ports) - who tested that? ;)

    Why should I use a Linux compatibility layer if I can simply stick to Linux? (what all the apps where developed for anyway)

    Oh, and shame to all Linux distributions, because you had a problem with one program for one distribution!

    Hail to anecdotical evidence! ;)

    Guess what: Doing Linux drivers, Linux on embedded hardware, Linux administration, and Linux application programming gives me a job. Doing all of these things for *BSD, guess what it gives me??? A nice luke-warm thank-you! Go figure...

    Linux: More drivers, more ready-to-run software, more choices, more developers, more community, more mailing lists, more innovation on the application level (virtually none of the FOSS apps are primarily targetted on BSD). Less code throw-away to Apple (OS X - FreeBSD) and Microsoft (Unix Services for Windows - OpenBSD). More books. More preinstalled computers. More platforms to run productive on (not proof-of-concept as NetBSD - kudos, though). More future, way more future.