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The State of the Demon Address

Posted by michael on from the not-dying dept.

Kelly McNeill writes "It's an exciting era in the Berkeley Software Distribution world; indeed, things started off with a litigious bang over a decade ago, but now BSD solutions are more varied than ever before and offer the user heretofore unprecedented choice and power. So many are the options today that it's time for a roll call from the various distributions. Paul Webb submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews which takes a look at what each BSD has to offer and also looks at where each is going."

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  1. Bummer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

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  2. Netcraft confirms it! by adam613 · · Score: 4, Funny

    BSD is slashdotted :)

  3. That's "Daemon" by Eric+Smith · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... you insensitive clod!

  4. Re:openbsd mistakes by XMyth · · Score: 4, Funny

    many users have been flamed off the Internet due to his bad moods and compulsive control issues.

    I can attest to this. My cousin, Larry, was flamed clear off the Internet by Theo De Raadt. To this day, he hasn't been able to return.

    moment of silence please....

  5. I Love BSD by HenryKoren · · Score: 3, Funny
    The love affair started with FreeBSD 4.5. Now years later I administer two production servers running FreeBSD 4.10. I have a server at home running FreeBSD 5.2.1 with 549 ports installed and running flawlessly in unison.

    I have tried most common flavors of Linux. Some are nice, but something keeps me coming back to BSD.

    It was love at /usr/ports/
    It had me at pkg_get -r

    No Red Hat, Fedora, Slackware, Gentoo, SuSE, Debian or Mandrake could give me that same feeling. Call it a personal preference, call it zealotry. But FreeBSD has won my heart.

    BSD I love you...

    --
    To blog is sublime
  6. Re:BSD software abundance? by Quill_28 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've love to try out linux on the desktop, but it seems I'd probably run into a wall with many hardware drivers or software apps not being available. Moreso than Windows at least. Everytime I need to search for software, it seems as though there is always a setup.exe for most of the Windows distributions, yet I rarely run across these for Linux. Linux seems to be used mostly in specialized machines such as webservers and the like, right? Not really geared towards the desktop? It seems like quite a bullet-proof OS that's organized better than most version's of Windows and runs more smoothly, why isn't there more software written specifically for it? Or am I completely missing something?

  7. This just in. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Another crippling bombshell just hit the already beleagured web server. Red smoke runs like a river of blood.