Everyone doing server stuff should drop thewir x86 boxes and get a Sun right now!
Seriously
The SPARC architecture does not use a BIOS with REAL mode drivers for booting. It has protected (or whatever it is in non-x86 parlance) mode drivers built right into the firmware. On x86, the BIOS contains Real mode drivers, THis was fine for operatings systems like DOS and Win 3.1. However, modern OSs (Windows, Linux, etc) need protected mode drivers. BY placing these right in the fimware Sun is able to smoke x86 performancewise ALWAYS. I thin its time to ditch our legacy DOS hardware and start getting x86 machines with protected mode BIOS drivers. Anyone with more technical information, please comment.
People tend to portray the United States Government as Big Brother. However, the half-assed socialism of the UK has led far more insidious breaches of personal privacy than in the United States. Th UK boasts the highest density of surveilance cameras (someone post the URL that said that it was pon/. or k5 recently) in the civilized world. Despite the fact/stereotype that most Americans are fat, gun totining rednecks, these same people have managed to hold onto their sense to liberty.
We should all keep in mind this simple truth: *BSD is dying.
You don't need to be 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.
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 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 hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
We all can see the hand writing on the wall: *BSD faces a rosy future. In fact there may be no need to wait for the future at all because *BSD is flourishing. Things are looking very good for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to gain market share while red ink flows like a river of blood for other OS's.
FreeBSD is perhaps the most vigorous. Let's look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo understates 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. This ties up with the fact that NetBSD doesn't have a newsgroup. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts, rather surprising when you think there is no such operating system. Therefore there are about 700 users of a phantom operating system called 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 completely inconsistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the closeness of Walnut Creek to FreeBSD, CD sales and so on, FreeBSD gained a lot of business and established closer links with BSDI who sell a supported version of the same OS.
All marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily risen in market share. *BSD is very healthy and its long term survival prospects are very secure. If *BSD is to decline at all, it will be among the mental freaks who frequent the slashdot trolling grounds. *BSD continues to improve. Nothing short of a miracle could stop it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD has it made.
Yet nother crippling bombshell hit the eleaguered *BSD
community when last month IDC confirmed that *SD 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
Perceived problems with KDE
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KDE 2.2 Released
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· Score: 0, Troll
One of the problems I've noticed with KDE is that the only way to use it remotely is via the klugey X11 protocol. X11 has a horrible track record of security. Perhaps they should consider moving to GNOME's CORBA (ORBit). CORBA is a much more modern and secure networked display system! Just a concern for the 1% of use deploying Linux in this manner, but a biggie!
This may sound like a troll and get modded down, but who cares? Since Java is OOP, wouldn't it be easy for Sun to just change the implementation of the JXTA framework to "backdoor" oar peer to peer architecture. Not that Sun would do something like that, only M1cr0$0ft would do something that evil *(and we all know M$ doesn't use OOP since they don't use Java, although they're oracle db is OOP, IIRC). Anyone have an idea how a truly free version of this and Java could help us circumvent this dastardly tactic of the Coprporate Republic?
As a Muslim and a longtime user developer of GNU/Linux, I am offended by your American cultural imperialism. My religion forbids the sonsumption of alcohol! Please attempt to honor the wishes of those who gvie their time to make software for you!
I would like any donations to me instead be made to charitable organization such as:
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously
The SPARC architecture does not use a BIOS with REAL mode drivers for booting. It has protected (or whatever it is in non-x86 parlance) mode drivers built right into the firmware. On x86, the BIOS contains Real mode drivers, THis was fine for operatings systems like DOS and Win 3.1. However, modern OSs (Windows, Linux, etc) need protected mode drivers. BY placing these right in the fimware Sun is able to smoke x86 performancewise ALWAYS. I thin its time to ditch our legacy DOS hardware and start getting x86 machines with protected mode BIOS drivers. Anyone with more technical information, please comment.
People tend to portray the United States Government as Big Brother. However, the half-assed socialism of the UK has led far more insidious breaches of personal privacy than in the United States. Th UK boasts the highest density of surveilance cameras (someone post the URL that said that it was pon /. or k5 recently) in the civilized world. Despite the fact/stereotype that most Americans are fat, gun totining rednecks, these same people have managed to hold onto their sense to liberty.
We should all keep in mind this simple truth: *BSD is dying.
You don't need to be 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.
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 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 hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
FreeBSD is perhaps the most vigorous. Let's look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo understates 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. This ties up with the fact that NetBSD doesn't have a newsgroup. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts, rather surprising when you think there is no such operating system. Therefore there are about 700 users of a phantom operating system called 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 completely inconsistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the closeness of Walnut Creek to FreeBSD, CD sales and so on, FreeBSD gained a lot of business and established closer links with BSDI who sell a supported version of the same OS.
All marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily risen in market share. *BSD is very healthy and its long term survival prospects are very secure. If *BSD is to decline at all, it will be among the mental freaks who frequent the slashdot trolling grounds. *BSD continues to improve. Nothing short of a miracle could stop it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD has it made.
Yet nother crippling bombshell hit the eleaguered *BSD
community when last month IDC confirmed that *SD 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
One of the problems I've noticed with KDE is that the only way to use it remotely is via the klugey X11 protocol. X11 has a horrible track record of security. Perhaps they should consider moving to GNOME's CORBA (ORBit). CORBA is a much more modern and secure networked display system! Just a concern for the 1% of use deploying Linux in this manner, but a biggie!
This may sound like a troll and get modded down, but who cares? Since Java is OOP, wouldn't it be easy for Sun to just change the implementation of the JXTA framework to "backdoor" oar peer to peer architecture. Not that Sun would do something like that, only M1cr0$0ft would do something that evil *(and we all know M$ doesn't use OOP since they don't use Java, although they're oracle db is OOP, IIRC). Anyone have an idea how a truly free version of this and Java could help us circumvent this dastardly tactic of the Coprporate Republic?
As a Muslim and a longtime user developer of GNU/Linux, I am offended by your American cultural imperialism. My religion forbids the sonsumption of alcohol! Please attempt to honor the wishes of those who gvie their time to make software for you!
I would like any donations to me instead be made to charitable organization such as:
the PLO
kill
Muslim Aid
The Nation of Islam
Thank you.
I've noticed yahoo's search has been as good as or better than google as of late. Don't give up on are old favorite yaho!
I DEMAND OPENGL faxing! pigfuckers! WE must not let micorsoft use dirctx for FAX? it won't work on linux, freebsd or perl or X-Windows!?
dude! that's what i thought