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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. Uptimes by n0dez · · Score: 4, Informative

    FreeBSD and BSD/OS are beating any OS. Just visit Sites with longest running systems by average uptime.

    1. Re:Uptimes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Sigh. Linux, Solaris and some other UNIX variants wrap their uptime counters at 497 days -- so they CAN'T be on that list.

      It's not remotely an indication of FreeBSD's quality.

  2. Re:I have.. by Nighttime · · Score: 4, Informative

    One problem with one Linux distribution? Wrong, gnorw, wrong! The latest version of the Linux kernel has a very annoying bug... it doesn't detect correctly your hd's geometry and messes it up so you can't boot up Windows. So using ANY Linux distro with that kernel will give you problems. Maybe RMS introduced it as he wants everything to be GPL... a monopoly in the open source world! So, like Nas says in his "You can" song, read more learn!

    Actually, it's the Windows installer that writes the incorrect partition table. When the Linux installer comes along it writes out a correct partition table that then prevents Windows from booting. But don't let the facts get in the way of a rant. :)

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  3. Re:The purpose of this story? by Brandybuck · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a joke. Lighten up. Sheesh...

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  4. Re:Question by MarcQuadra · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, I don't know if you're serious, but Gentoo Linux is a build-from-source Linux distro that has a ports system called 'portage'

    I myself use Gentoo because I prefer Linux over the *BSDs I've tried, but Gentoo lets me build from source VERY easily.

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