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FreeBSD Status Report for 2005 Q2
koinu writes "FreeBSD Status Report for the second quarter 2005 has been published by Scott Long. It gives a more precise description of what is being done on the 18 Summer Of Code projects." From the post: "The Google Summer of Code project has also generated quite a bit of
excitement. FreeBSD has been granted 18 funded mentorship spots, the
fourth most of all of participating organizations. Projects being
worked on range from UFS Journalling to porting the new BSDInstaller
to redesigning the venerable www.FreeBSD.org website."
Wasn't Summer of Code meant for school students? I think your friend might be in it for more than the coding...
I though soft updates made journaling unneeded and everything slower?
Please enlighten.
Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
Oh come on. It's no more annoying than any of the many other trolls and LAME jokes here at Slashdot, and certainly LESS annoying than the Gay Nigger thing (and certainly less offensive). It's also less annoying than all the questionable "editing" that goes on here, what with all the dupes and crap stories. Learn to mentally filter out trolls and none of them will bother you, your blood pressure will be lower, and your quality of life will in general be higher. Just let it go, that's the price you pay for surfing a public forum.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Silly Anonymous Coward Troll, stats are for ids.
With an installed base up from zero five years ago to about 10 Millon today and with another million added each quarter, the users of Mac OS X as well as any real armchair operating system aficionados would be surprised to hear that *BSD is anything but alive and kicking. It's certainly growing faster than any Un*x has ever grown in the past, and has a larger installed user base than any *nix ever.
Regarding the number of NetBSD posts to Usenet... good grief. This correlation can be easily explained by other factors. Most likely, NetBSD users are more mature both technically and emotionally, and don't participate in Usenet any longer. Perhaps they're too busy shipping gazillions of embedded devices to bother with a forum with such a poor signal to noise ratio as Usenet. They probably also have more education, drive nicer cars, and have 1.2 girlfriends (vs. 0.1 for the average AC Troll) .
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
I don't think anyone who posts those messages actually thinks that BSD is dying. They are just posting to keep up a traditional joke.
With Apple giving up on it, is it really worthwhile to develop a PowerPC port
You're falling into the same trap that most of the herd seem to. Just because a vendor announces platform retirement doesn't mean its dead the moment they announce it.
Alpha retirement was announced years ago, yet I still work on projects that are putting new Tru64 Alpha's in. Albeit not for much longer I'm sure. Same with Apple PowerPC. They will be selling new PowerPC systems for a couple of years yet, and then after that there will be a few score million systems out there for many years that will be excellent candidates for FreeBSD servers. I expect there will be lots of bargains to be had on eBay.