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The Future of NetBSD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-the-netcraft-comments-to-a-minimum dept.

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?"

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  1. Sounds bleak by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Almost as if NetBSD is dying.

    I don't buy it though. It's free.

    1. Re:Sounds bleak by rsidd · · Score: 5, Funny

      (If you think there's the slightest chance this was meant to be funny, it was.)

      1. Take a perfectly good joke.
      2. Emphasise it, highlight it, add a laugh track.
      3. Et voila! American humor.

  2. Netcraft? by DavidpFitz · · Score: 4, Funny



    Has Netcraft weighed in on this yet?

    </troll>

  3. Obligatory quotes by zensonic · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of toasters cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced..."

    --
    Thomas S. Iversen
  4. The real story here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... 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?

  5. Re:How many BSDs do we need? by cyclop · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 /. comments with a sig attached to the end.
  6. Freudian Slip??!? by sh0dan · · Score: 5, Funny

    To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>

    :)

  7. Re:What goes around comes around by JanneM · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
  8. Re:Nature doing what it does best... by hclyff · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pandas are still around because of "survival of the cutest". Much like OSX.