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FreeBSD Core Team elections complete

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-hanging-chads-on-this-one dept.

imp writes "The regular elections for the FreeBSD governing board has completed. The new core team is the same as the old core team, with Scott Long replacing Greg Lehey after his resignation earlier in the year. Details can be found here."

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  1. *BSD be dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    We all know that *BSD is dying. It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying, that *BSD is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *BSD is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BSD community. The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of BSD 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 marketing 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 hobbyist dillatant dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

  2. In other news... by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...FreeBSD's installer STILL hasn't been fixed to properly detect or accept correct disk geometries for IDE hard drives.

    Oh well. It's not like getting the OS to actually install or cooperate with the BIOS is important or anything.

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    1. Re:In other news... by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Your girlfriend is a fucking ham-beast. Did she eat the butterfly after that picture was taken?

      Good work. When you die, there will now be at least two more people rejoicing that you've finally gotten what you deserved.

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  3. Oksana Baiul by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The toast is part of this complete breakfast.

  4. Grammar Nazi.... by Gestahl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "The regular elections for the FreeBSD governing board has completed."

    Should be "The regular elections have completed."

    That is all.