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BSD Usage Survey

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the stats-and-graphs dept.

hubertf writes "The BSD Certification Group announced the BSD Usage Survey today (non-English version also available). 'This survey aims to collect detailed statistics on how and where BSD systems are used around the world. The survey is short- only 19 questions- and should only take a few minutes to complete. The survey covers usage of the four main BSD projects - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD.'"

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  1. Re:Dragonfly BSD by CyricZ · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think your inability to read English is causing you some problems here. Reread what I wrote. Notice that I used terms like "is now becoming" and "is bound to". The very nature of those phrases suggest that the event will occur in the future. You know, the "future" as in not now, but sometime soon.

    FreeBSD 5 had better be more scalable than FreeBSD 4. I mean, come on. New releases are supposed to improve upon old releases! But DragonFlyBSD is being architectured to trump them all. Literally, to trump them all.

    And regarding the study you mentioned, it looks like it was valid as of November, 2003. That was two years ago! Things have changed significantly since then. Besides, the machine used was a uniprocessor system. DragonFlyBSD will be capable of scaling on systems with a massive number of processors or multicore CPUs. Even FreeBSD 6 may struggle to offer suitable performance on such systems.

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  2. Re:Dragonfly BSD by CyricZ · · Score: 0, Troll

    The phrase "is now becoming" obviously suggests that DFBSD is not, as of now, the premiere BSD. But in time (ie. the future!) it will take the place of FreeBSD as the general purpose BSD of choice.

    Doubt me all you want. The fact remains that the quality, usability, reliability and overall development of FreeBSD is seriously lacking these days. That is because the project no longer has the talents of an individual like Matt Dillon. Consequently, there is strong reason to believe that a project lead by Matt Dillon is sure to succeed. And that is what we are seeing: DFBSD is quickly becoming the leading general purpose BSD, soon to take over completely from FreeBSD.

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