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FreeBSD, Stealthy Open Source Project
zam4ever writes "Sean Michael Kerner has written an article on how FreeBSD has become a Stealth-Growth Open Source Project with various reasons outlined for FreeBSD's growth over the last years."
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If the article says "leverage the strengths" it's not for me.
Woah, 3 devils on the main page (for me at least), all posted within a few minutes. Is BSD dying faster today or are they simply on Speed?
Bitten Apples are still better than dirty Windows...
Uh oh. I read the sentence "Linux actually inherits a lot of BSD code" and immdiately thought of Ken Brown. Ken, if you're reading this (or having it translated into a version using only monosyllabic words) be advised that the preceding quote refers to GNU/Linux, not the Linux kernel that Linux wrote in a year.
Actually, I was trying to be Insightful, not Funny.
It is now official. FreeBSD is Undead.
It has long been argued that FreeBSD is dead, but now new evidence is coming to light that it has been resurrected, and like a zombie process is lurching across the Unix landscape once again.
Recent growth in FreeBSD's market share, as reported by Slashdot, is evidence that a Faustian pact with the daemons has been made. Stay tuned for more on this recent development...
``After all, the *NIX (or *BSD) motto is: do one thing, do it well.''
I think the arguing goes really well.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Nonetheless, there are people out there who will sell you FreeBSD or the Brooklyn Bridge.
Ever see those movies Airplane and Airplane 2? You know how there's those scenes where everyone forms a line to bitch-slap a hysterical passenger? Well that's what's going on here with all the "No" replies I'm getting. I already got a satisfactory boolean answer with the first posted reply- enough already! I was just wondering if OS X Server was getting market share but appeared as FreeBSD online, the way Safari identifies itself as Mozilla to web servers. I was just curious. I got responses from people who know their stuff. The matter is closed. Move along.
Breakfast served all day!
Example: Linux makes a darn good high-traffic web server, but FreeBSD makes an even better one. However, you won't see too many (or any) companies working on porting FreeBSD to wristwatches or big-iron supercomputers like you do with Linux because the FreeBSD kernel doesn't scale well in either direction.
That's what NetBSD is for. I'm typing this on my NetBSD toaster.
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