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GNOME Gets its Own Software Repository
PostThis writes "After the attack to the Gnome servers a few months back the Gnome Project was left without a third party software repository (which wasn't that usable anyway). The gap was filled in very recently by GnomeFiles.org. The site was built using BeBits as a model (BeOS users still swear by it) and they are looking into filling up their Gnome/GTK+ software database quickly; they are offering prizes to Gnome developers who will submit an app during the first week of the site's launch."
Ok.... now when will GNOME become less sucky again ?
It is official; common fucking sense confirms: BeOS is dead
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered BeOS community when IDC confirmed that BeOS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than zero fucking percent of all desktops. Coming on the heels of a recent common fucking sense survey which plainly states that BeOS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. BeOS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict BeOS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: BeOS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for BeOS because BeOS is dead. Things are looking very bad for BeOS. As many of us are already aware, BeOS continues to not have any fucking market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBeOS is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant gayness of long time FreeBeOS developer Eugenia's husband only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBeOS is dead.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OSNews leader Eugenia states that there are zero fucking users of OpenBeOS. How many users of NetBeOS are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBeOS versus NetBeOS posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 0/5 = 0 fucking NetBeOS users. BeOS/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBeOS posts. Therefore there are about zero fucking users of BeOS/OS. A recent article put FreeBeOS at about 80 percent of the BeOS market. Therefore there are (0+0+0)*4 = 0 fuckining FreeBeOS users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBeOS Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of OSNews, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBeOS went out of business and was taken over by BeOSI who sell another troubled OS. Now BeOSI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that BeOS has steadily declined in market share. BeOS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If BeOS is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. BeOS continues to be dead. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, BeOS is dead.
Fact: BeOS is dead
Is this what GNOME should be imitating?