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Why OpenBSD's Release Process Works
An anonymous reader writes "Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule — 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs. This on-time delivery process is very different from how corporations manage their product releases and much more in tune with how volunteer driven communities are supposed to function.
Theo de Raadt explains in this presentation how the OpenBSD release process is managed (video) and why it has been such a success."
He is a fucking Wiki pervert
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest 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 further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a 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.
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.
Recently, Slashdot confirmed that FreeBSD has been bucked away by WindRiver to FreeBSD Mall, for a carton of Winston's and a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon. This only serves to confirm the fact that FreeBSD is unwanted, doomed to be passed around like a harelipped orphan from one foster parent to another.
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 hobbyist 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 dead
Shouldn't you be off screaming about some possible "GPL violation' loser?
Or trolling stories about non-GPL software retard?
No foaming at the mouth tantrums that someone is using your code and not kissing your fat ugly ass in reverence.
Oh, really?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
and redhat still calls itself redhat LINUX you spastic.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Suck some more cock, won't you? People like you are pathetic. You wallow about on the floor kissing the feet of the "great people" instead of standing up and being just as "great". Worst of all, you apply your own resignations of being a lesser person to everyone else.
Having followed LLVM for the past couple years and seen the amazing things companies and projects are doing with already, I couldn't figure where all these angry flames on Slashdot stories were coming from.
It's the GNU/GPL crowd. LLVM is direct threat to their attempts to trap all open source development in GPL licensed code. All those 'BSD is Dying' posts weren't/aren't just unfunny Gay Nigger or Natatlie Portman trolls, they were are concerted effort by the crazies GNU crowd doing their best to try to get the open source world to equate 'Open Source' with 'GNU' and 'GPL'.
GCC was the last thing that the GNU crowd had to lock the rest of the open source world into using their tech. It is understandable that they have been fighting it the same way Microsoft is fighting to hold on to their monopoly over office software document formats.
LLVM means that open source developers now have a truly free state of the art compiler and compiler tech that is free of ideology and license lock in.
The Debian fanboys are really out in force in the comments on this article.
I'm tired of the refusal to acknowledge just how chronically Debian sucks. It is the worst Linux/BSD distribution in existence, by a mile; the over-engineered garbage they try and add to virtually every application/package they get hold of is beyond belief. I was wrestling with adding configs to both vim and apache in Ubuntu the other day, when I finally realised that the Debian idiots have tried to make their own conf hardwired in, and then have another file somewhere else (with God only knows what name, in most cases) for "user" changes.
The answer isn't simply to use another distribution if I don't like it, either. Debian offends me to the point where I want it stopped. The horrible mess of perl glue that they refer to as their custom kernel build framework is yet another example. Good luck trying to compile a custom kernel in Ubuntu; there's just so many minor perl snags that it can fail on, that it is virtually impossible.
I savagely, passionately hate Debian, and even more, I hate the system's developers and users continuing to insist on how wonderful it is, because as long as they continue to do that, the system's problems will not get solved.
Debian is suffering from the same fundamental issue that most alcoholics do. You need to be willing to acknowledge that a problem exists before you can begin solving it.