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OpenBSD Hackathon Underway

Posted by timothy on from the so-don't-even-ask dept.

Triumph The Insult C writes "Aside from some stealth developers, the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, held in Calgary, is underway, according to Theo. They've been doing some recent work on SMP, and have some impressive AMD SMP gear there that they've got to hack around with. A few years ago, it was PF. Who knows what they'll come up with this time that knocks our socks off."

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  1. They will fix the OBSD "virus", + more sec stuff by ideut · · Score: -1, Troll
    If we want to see this Operating System darting through the twenty-first century with a spring in its step, we had better hope that they continue with their emphasis on security. Accordingly, word on the street is that significant effort this hackathon will be put into fixing the first ever OpenBSD virus, before going on to harden their innovative XOR hardware systems.

    Other plans include replacing BIND with djbdns, and integrating SPF+ with sendmail.

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  2. I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yoda now confirms: *BSD IS DEAD!

  3. NETCRAFT NOW CONFIRMS: *BSD IS DYING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

  4. Re:They will fix the OBSD "virus", + more sec stuf by ideut · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yes: you provide a pointer to a partial solution of this problem. Of course, the complete solution also involves running:

    # fstat -f / | ipsecadm - - | tcpdump -i - | less

    Thanks for your contribution to my state of the art, nacturnation (do you mind if I call nacty?)

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  5. Elegy for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Elegy For *BSD

    I am a *BSD user
    and I try hard to be brave
    That is a tall order
    *BSD's foot is in the grave.

    I tap at my toy keyboard
    and whistle a happy tune
    but keeping happy's so hard,
    *BSD died so soon.

    Each day I wake and softly sob,
    Nightfall finds me crying
    Not only am I a zit faced slob
    but *BSD is dying.
  6. A nice installer, after all? by Korpo · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of course, nobody would care for a better installer. Nobody in his right mind would demand one. No, not me. Not anyone! Allocating resources to an installer? Preposterous!

    People move along, there's nothing to see here.

    (Disclaimer: This is a joke. Now shoo!)

    1. Re:A nice installer, after all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Shut the fuck up. OpenBSD is the best. I'm the best. Linux is shit.

      Love Theo da anus licker.

  7. OpenBSD is a failure by any man's measure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    We all can agree that *BSD is a failure. Yet why did *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personae?

    The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

  8. Their first challenge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hacking their way into BSDs coffin

  9. Way to stick it to that cut-and-paste troll! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jesus god you're a faggot.

    1. Re:Way to stick it to that cut-and-paste troll! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Put a sock it in, god boy.

  10. It's dead, Jim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    As we all know, due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sold another troubled OS. Now BSDI too is out of business, and its corpse turned over to the Wind River charnel house. I suppose it's not diplomatic, but an "I told you so" is certainly in order. Apology accepted.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will only be among OS hobbyists. *BSD continues to decay, and nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time; for all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

  11. Alas, the parade's gone by . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Just as the quill pen and buggy whip are now relegated to the realm of the "collector" and "hobbyist", so too are the various failed versions of *BSD. Beset with compatibility problems, loss of market-share, and obsolete technology, the *BSDs woke up one morning and found themselves irrelevant.

    Fewer and fewer normal people have any interest in *BSD whatsoever. *BSD has become primarily the realm of the weirdo and emotionally disturbed. Perhaps someday in the future we will turn on the Antiques Road Show and find some *BSD bric-a-brac in a curio display.