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The Future of NetBSD
ErisCalmsme writes "In this email Charles Hannum (one of the founders of NetBSD) tells us that 'The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. It has gotten to the point that being associated with the project is often more of a liability than an asset. I will attempt to explain how this happened, what the current state of affairs is, and what needs to be done to attempt to fix the situation.' What will happen to NetBSD?"
Almost as if NetBSD is dying.
I don't buy it though. It's free.
Has Netcraft weighed in on this yet?
</troll>
I can't wait for the "Netcraft confirms it" trolls.
Hang on, there's another angle, here.
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: "NetBSD is dying" trolls are dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered "NetBSD is dying" troll community when Slashdot confirmed that NetBSD is actually dying...
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
Survival of the fittest... the OSes that don't cut it (or that don't keep up) die off, the others learn from their mistakes and keep on going. I'm trying to find an analogy that would describe the survival of Windoze against all odds if the previous statement was true, but can't find one :\
"I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of toasters cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced..."
Thomas S. Iversen
I love NetSBD
Freudian slip, apparently.
+++ATH0
... is that there are far fewer novel toaster designs being produced every year. It is a Well Known Fact that NetBSD has put forth millions of man-hours into porting their OS to every new toaster design released by manufacturers across the globe. With the recent sharp decline in toaster research, development, and production it was only inevitable that NetBSD development should come to a standstill. Modern convection ovens run Linux, and it's just not the same. What does a penguin know about heat anyway?
If we all would just settle on Slackware, the ONE TRUE DISTRO, everything would be perfect.
(rumours start in the plaza)
- Slackware? Hah! No package management!The one true distro is Debian and its mighty apt-get!
...
- What are you saying? It's clearly Gentoo! You compile everything from source!
- Gentoo is for ricers! People that want their work done use Ubuntu!
- Ubuntu? I'm more comfortable with Suse and Novell support...
- What? Bear that RPM hell? Go use Knoppix!
- What about RPMs? On my Fedora work so well...
(everything in flames)
-- Patent no.123456: A way to personalize
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
:)
Unless I'm mistaken, this is the same Charles Hannum that was directly responsible for kicking fellow NetBSD founder, Theo de Raadt, out of the core group, removed his CVS priviledges, and made Theo twist in the wind for 7 months until he was forced to leave to found OpenBSD.
Theo "voice of reason" de Raadt? Imagine that, someone not getting along with him. What are the odds, really?
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
You can't rejoin fork()s. You're thinking of threads, with the thread attr not set to detach. Not quite the same thing!
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:32(King James Version)
I've never seen a Linux distribution that wouldn't boot if you installed the vanilla kernel on it.
It won't stop it from *booting*, but try booting FC4 with a vanilla kernel and then log in on the console - watch how it DOES NOT WORK. Seriously, try it. They have some PAM module that uses a procfs feature added by one of their kernel packages. It can be disabled, but it's definitely an example of a fairly normal operation that should work fine with a stock kernel, but manages to fail miserably.
Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Max: "I'd be peeing my pants if I wore any!"
^developers^humans
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