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Possible Last-Minute Problems With Vista SP2
crazyeyes writes "It looks like Microsoft is facing problems with Windows Vista SP2. The final Service Pack for Vista and Server 2008 (before Windows 7 comes out) has been delayed. The folks who broke the launch details and dates of previous Service Packs for XP and Vista have Microsoft's latest internal schedule. Can Microsoft get it out before Windows 7? According to the new schedule, just barely."
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
I hope your dick catches on fire.
It's pretty much a proven fact (a) Windows sucks, (b) people will continue using it, and (c) scientists will by and large not.
How many times per week does /. have to say this? It's not like anyone new here will just slap their forehead and go "Holy shit, Windows sucks and I never knew it! Which Linux distro should I start using?".
On a side note, I actually used Word 2007 the other day (hey, I couldn't get to a Linux system, I was at a friend's house) to compose a simple cover letter for my resume, and my jaw dropped when I saw how unbelievably - and unnecessarily - complex the UI had become. No fucking wonder there's always a fuss over a new Office release. It's like getting out to your truck and discovering that (a) all dials and gauges are now obfuscated, (b) radio stations are listed in base 73 and someone glued a Mariah Carey CD in the head unit, and (c) your gear shift now has all the gears in different locations.
PC moderators can suck my White pierced, tattooed dick. If you think pride == hate, s/dick/Aryan meat mallet/g.
Ten years ago I imagined myself to be running Linux by now.
I bought into the silly idea that 'millions of programmers worldwide' would quickly leave the sad, pathetic, and outdated closed source world behind. I laughed at the BSOD jokes. Shook my head at the latest virus/security problem with Windows. And anxiously waited for the amazing things that were just about to start showing up with Linux on the Desktop.
And the years went by. And I tried the latest flavor of the month/year Linux distro only to be disheartened with the shockingly amateurishness, clunkyness, and often outright buggyness of each new version.
I gave Vista a try on a whim building a new machine last year and even paid the 110 bucks for it from newegg.
Wow, was I impressed. It was fast and clean. Everything in the world ran on it. Never had a single crash since I installed it months ago. Not a single virus or spyware problem. Everything just worked. Search is a little clunky. The stupid backslashed for paths is idiotic. But overall it has been one of the best OSes I've ever run.
Now seeing these silly Slashdot stories still trying to spread FUD about Windows just grate on me. I find myself visiting the site less and less as time goes by. Life is too short. I'm getting real work done right now with Vista and no longer care to about hear 'the big plans' of various open source projects. Or how such and such distro or open source app is 'really making progress'.
The best thing for Linux on the Desktop is for all that wasted energy trying to convince everyone how much Windows sucks was better spent banging on Linux and its apps with an unmerciful eye.
I didn't know which of you to believe, so I checked with everyone I know. They believe Scutter.
Every Windows desktop machine I use from my old T42 XP laptop to the new HP workstation with 8GB of ram running XP64 to the T60 laptop running Vista SP1. Two minutes for the T42, 30-60 seconds for the more powerful machines.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.