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 fittingly 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.
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.
The article has an interesting point of view, however I think AOL is failing due to stagnation. The article touches on this a little, AOL hasn't innovated in years. Seriously, no matter how lame AOL is in reality, they did make some great innovations in instant chat. All the new AOL releases over the past 2+ years haven't added much besides a new revision number.
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Do you work for Apple? If not you are lying. Apple is the only people that can work on it. Technicians that don't work directly for Apple can do nothing without voiding the warrenty.
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I work at a Macintosh repair shop and am Apple certified, thank you very much. I never said it sounded scary, I said he makes it sound like such a secrative position. ie: He made himself sound so elite because he was Apple certified.
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I am an Apple Service Technician...part of a very few group of people who are authorized to take apart and reassemble Apple products without voiding its warranty. As such, this topic is of no news to me since I have access to confidential service manuals that tell me how to properly take apart the things.
You make it sound so secrative... like a high end FBI/CIA job.
They did the best they could, I really enjoyed the recap during the first hour, I had missed the last 2-3 seasons and it was very helpful. I don't have the slightest idea if they will ever continue the conspiracy, but this finalé at least made me wish that the show wasn't over. It actually felt very much like the show wasn't over. I hope the second movie will be more conspiracies and not a stand alone movie. Sure they could have tried and pieced together every mystery and conspiracy, but did they have to? I like it being left open a little.
It wasn't mentioned in the article but I am curious as to how MP options will work? One of the downfalls of DS is that characters are stored clientside and games are hosted by individuals. This leads to massive cheating and laggy games for my 56k using friends. Does anyone know if NWN is going to be any different? I sure hope so. Also, incase anyone doesn't know, Gamespot is running their own review/preview of NWN here.
Why not just take a portion of the sales tax used on Science Fiction products and move that towards NASA? Instead of 8.25% sales tax going torwards my state, 7.25% gets to them and 1% gets to NASA? This could work for all products, 1% of food taxes (junk food, sodas) can go towards the FDA, 1% of medical taxes can go towards hospitals. I think it would be nice, the State and Gov't still get their taxes and we are sure some of it goes to those who might need it.
Several correspondents asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation by Mac zealots, who have been known to e-mail 1,000 or more harangues to the work addresses of those who criticize the huggable device.
I can only speak for myself, however, I really have better things to do than spam the email box of someone who says my computer is slow.
I know, but I am always hesitant with magazine dates. They always date them ahead for some unkown (to me) reason, yet release them a week behind their cover date. So do I say the upcoming or the current or the past issue? I just went with the date on the cover.
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Watch out guys... Investments: Not FDIC Insured. No Bank Guarantee. May Lose Value.
Why can't the game check to see if the version of software on the XBox is newer than the software it carries? Seems like the obvious solution.
I wanted to read the article but it was Slashdotted, why is this -1 troll???
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 fittingly 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.
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
>Entourage corrupts mailboxes
Really? DO you have evidence? I am sick of FUD on Entourage because it is an M$ product. Grow up, M$ isn't pure evil.
NINNLE LINUX IS DYING!
Why didn't they do an odd number of games, so that there would have to be a winner? Is it that much harder to have seven or five games?
The article has an interesting point of view, however I think AOL is failing due to stagnation. The article touches on this a little, AOL hasn't innovated in years. Seriously, no matter how lame AOL is in reality, they did make some great innovations in instant chat. All the new AOL releases over the past 2+ years haven't added much besides a new revision number.
NetNewsWire parses rss feeds and does a damn good job of it.
You can try Panic's Audion, I am pretty sure they have a plugin which does what you need.
It resizes for you in OS X.
From http://www.slangsite.com/slang/M.html:
marklar:
A noun standing in place of any noun you have temporarily forgotten. Synonym of thingy, thingumbob, whatsit. Also may be used deliberately when the meaning is abundantly clear anyway. Derived from its use by space aliens in an episode of South Park
Example: On Marklar, everyone and every thing is referred to as marklar. We come in marklar. Take us to your marklar.
Do you work for Apple? If not you are lying. Apple is the only people that can work on it. Technicians that don't work directly for Apple can do nothing without voiding the warrenty.
I work at a Macintosh repair shop and am Apple certified, thank you very much. I never said it sounded scary, I said he makes it sound like such a secrative position. ie: He made himself sound so elite because he was Apple certified.
G4 Towers come with PCI slots, but Macs use ZIMMs for processors.
They are? Since when... I am always the last to find out, damn.
Adium is a wonderful cocoa replacement for AIM.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=final%E9
They did the best they could, I really enjoyed the recap during the first hour, I had missed the last 2-3 seasons and it was very helpful.
I don't have the slightest idea if they will ever continue the conspiracy, but this finalé at least made me wish that the show wasn't over. It actually felt very much like the show wasn't over. I hope the second movie will be more conspiracies and not a stand alone movie.
Sure they could have tried and pieced together every mystery and conspiracy, but did they have to? I like it being left open a little.
It wasn't mentioned in the article but I am curious as to how MP options will work? One of the downfalls of DS is that characters are stored clientside and games are hosted by individuals. This leads to massive cheating and laggy games for my 56k using friends. Does anyone know if NWN is going to be any different? I sure hope so.
Also, incase anyone doesn't know, Gamespot is running their own review/preview of NWN here.
Why not just take a portion of the sales tax used on Science Fiction products and move that towards NASA? Instead of 8.25% sales tax going torwards my state, 7.25% gets to them and 1% gets to NASA?
This could work for all products, 1% of food taxes (junk food, sodas) can go towards the FDA, 1% of medical taxes can go towards hospitals. I think it would be nice, the State and Gov't still get their taxes and we are sure some of it goes to those who might need it.
Here is the member list, it looks pretty satirical: http://members.truepath.com/objective/members.htm
For me the funniest part is that whoever is perpertrating this satire has the balls to get the site hosted by a Christian web host!
I can only speak for myself, however, I really have better things to do than spam the email box of someone who says my computer is slow.
I know, but I am always hesitant with magazine dates. They always date them ahead for some unkown (to me) reason, yet release them a week behind their cover date. So do I say the upcoming or the current or the past issue? I just went with the date on the cover.