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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. FreeBSD in a nutshell by n0dez · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a complete OS.
    It's not a clone.
    Everything runs faster.
    It doesn't mess up with your MBR.
    It does not come with a particular browser pre-installed.
    It's always fun to run FreeBSD.

  2. Re:The purpose of this story? by gangien · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And I guess they are trying to encourage Open Source Brotherhood, not realizing that most BSD users would prefer not to be associated with most Linux users.

    Really? that's why every linux convention thing I've been too, has had a BSD booth. Or almost all conversations with BSD users seem to involve Linux in some way. Please. A win for BSD is a win for Linux and vice versa. Soon as linux takes over the desktop BSD will win converts.

  3. Re:You know what's *really* dead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A BSD troll is like a retarded kid with a xylophone.