you are right. but think about this situation again,this time little closer.
you are one ex-windows user and you want to see a different os and you choose Linux(you have heard your friends talk about this often, and also you have heard the word 'RedHat') you goes to the shop and buy one cd with RedHat, then you go home and put this cd in the cd-rom, you are dazed by the color and the fancy look. you have xmms and kde or gnome and many other things. ...after 2 years.. after 2 years you hate windows, and love linux you are starting something new, the propaganda. talking with friends about linux, buying t-shirts with/. on them or cups and other 'geek' stuff ...after 6 years.. after 6 years you hate linux, and love bsd there is no more propaganda, the paint from your old t-shirts is fade. you are starting to read code, and laught on the comments in the kernel source. no more talking, you are now coder. reading netinet/tcp_input.c line by line, char by char. understanding the meaning of layer 2 api of the kernel. you are now alone. a proud bsd commiter.
see, all this started with one redhat and one beautiful winamp skin. of course any of this things could not happen the theory of chaos you know.
i want to way something to the people swearing that *bsd is dying i've copy pasted this article from march 25 it is a reply about the 7000th port in freebsd's port system. you can read it after. after luigi rizzo inplemented the polling code in freebsd kernel freebsd is one of the fastest NOS (network operating system). freebsd is never going to dye. gees, yahoo use freebsd in 1994 it started with p133mhz freebsd and 'yahoo.com' and now it is a giant. ipfw with dummynet is more human than any ipchains/iptables/ipfwadm + cbq for linux altq and fair queueing are implemented in the kernel and works with no problem. the new ipfw tehnology (writen by luigi rizzo) will rule the world. it have ethernet filters, and many features (like tos matching). it operates GREAT with 802.1q (vlans) and bridgeing even vlan bridgeing (available with mihail balikov's patch). who told you that *bsd will die? it will never DIE! untill the freebsd team goes for money. but i am happy because some company offered to sponsor the freebsd team to rewrite the tcp api but they refused because 10 more years NO money will be used to write freebsd code.
IT IS ALIVE.
It is 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 [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] 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.
redhat + hp, this is the end. the beginning of the free distributed linux's end lets take a closer look at redhat. they make it more human, (this is the way they discribe latest gnome + latest X, in the magazines), more complex, more colorfull (the green [OK] i guess), with the idea to get money from it. well now with the partnership with hp this is possible. we have 10 more years with the BSD license for full free code. long live bsd.
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hah, how can a fenix die?
can you imagine, all the linuxes die?
slack, debian, redhat?
you fools.
you are right.
/. on them or cups and other 'geek' stuff
but think about this situation again,this time little closer.
you are one ex-windows user and you want to see a different os and you choose Linux(you have heard your friends talk about this often, and also you have heard the word 'RedHat') you goes to the shop and buy one cd with RedHat, then you go home and put this cd in the cd-rom, you are dazed by the color and the fancy look. you have xmms and kde or gnome and many other things.
...after 2 years..
after 2 years you hate windows, and love linux
you are starting something new, the propaganda.
talking with friends about linux, buying t-shirts with
...after 6 years..
after 6 years you hate linux, and love bsd
there is no more propaganda, the paint from your old t-shirts is fade.
you are starting to read code, and laught on the comments in the kernel source.
no more talking, you are now coder.
reading netinet/tcp_input.c line by line, char by char.
understanding the meaning of layer 2 api of the kernel.
you are now alone. a proud bsd commiter.
see, all this started with one redhat and one beautiful winamp skin.
of course any of this things could not happen
the theory of chaos you know.
i want to way something to the people swearing that *bsd is dying
i've copy pasted this article from march 25
it is a reply about the 7000th port in freebsd's port system. you can read it after.
after luigi rizzo inplemented the polling code in freebsd kernel freebsd is one of the fastest NOS (network operating system).
freebsd is never going to dye.
gees, yahoo use freebsd
in 1994 it started with p133mhz freebsd and 'yahoo.com' and now it is a giant.
ipfw with dummynet is more human than any ipchains/iptables/ipfwadm + cbq for linux
altq and fair queueing are implemented in the kernel and works with no problem.
the new ipfw tehnology (writen by luigi rizzo) will rule the world. it have ethernet filters, and many features (like tos matching).
it operates GREAT with 802.1q (vlans) and bridgeing even vlan bridgeing (available with mihail balikov's patch).
who told you that *bsd will die?
it will never DIE! untill the freebsd team goes for money. but i am happy because some company offered to sponsor the freebsd team to rewrite the tcp api but they refused because 10 more years NO money will be used to write freebsd code.
IT IS ALIVE.
It is 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 [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] 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
redhat + hp, this is the end.
the beginning of the free distributed linux's end
lets take a closer look at redhat.
they make it more human, (this is the way they discribe latest gnome + latest X, in the magazines), more complex, more colorfull (the green [OK] i guess), with the idea to get money from it.
well now with the partnership with hp this is possible.
we have 10 more years with the BSD license for full free code.
long live bsd.
huh? it is just saturday joke post.
dont read if you dont like the subject.