Heh, I used to run an ISP/cybercafe and a few years back. We had a QuakeWorld Team Fortress server onsite on our T1 and the regulars were in one weekend playing. They started talking smack in-game and one of the dial-up customers came over on his bicycle and started a fight with them.
somebody mod the parent up! Moby's a corporate whore trying to cash in on a pseudo counterculture of wannabe ravers. Only Oprah, stockbrokers, soccer moms and men in their 40s driving midlife-crisis vettes listen to his shit.
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OpenBSD has a focus. FeeBSD has lost its focus and is spread too thin over the map. One time they had a good OS for the ia32. But now that focus is lost. FreeBSD is way behind. NetBSD diverts too many resources to avenues of no return (thinking Atari, Amiga, 68K, and other marginal platforms). Long term, probably only OpenBSD will survive.
Did you know that NetBSD's ports collection is actually slightly larger than OpenBSD's?
Everyone knows that FreeBSD is a cornucopia of packages....possibly even more than Debian, depending on how you count.
Personally, I think if FreeBSD wants become more sucessful it needs to place the highest emphasis on porting to a few more architectures. Start with PPC and sparc64 since they're already fielded and widely used, then work on ia64 and x86-64 after that. I say this because x86 won't be around forever....look at all the consolidation and standardization among consumer PC's already...the trend is toward 'set top boxes' but I think it's been slowed with the tech economy's depression. Intel's insane price cuts on CPU's can only be hastening this devastation of profit margins.
With a commerical advocate in Wasabi Systems, NetBSD is poised to make a big splash in the growing embedded/wireless business and might well be the OS for anyone interested in wireless applications to focus on.
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Heh, I used to run an ISP/cybercafe and a few years back. We had a QuakeWorld Team Fortress server onsite on our T1 and the regulars were in one weekend playing. They started talking smack in-game and one of the dial-up customers came over on his bicycle and started a fight with them.
the AC was prolly just a neo-conservative disruptor from "Free" [sic] Republic
somebody mod the parent up! Moby's a corporate whore trying to cash in on a pseudo counterculture of wannabe ravers. Only Oprah, stockbrokers, soccer moms and men in their 40s driving midlife-crisis vettes listen to his shit.
...and then there's Daemon News' Dixie
I like the one the AntiOffline crew made.
they sould be called stink tanks, cause all they produce is a bunch of stink... Sounds like 'CESSPOOL' would be an apt name for them
Like what? Taking Bubba's schlong up the cornhole in the federal pen? Some "large prize"
FWIW, they went apeshit over StarCraft, which provided revenues for other projects like Diablo II and WarCraft III.
Hmmm, you mean like Linux being a year late with the 2.4 kernel? :P
Did you know that NetBSD's ports collection is actually slightly larger than OpenBSD's? Everyone knows that FreeBSD is a cornucopia of packages....possibly even more than Debian, depending on how you count.
Personally, I think if FreeBSD wants become more sucessful it needs to place the highest emphasis on porting to a few more architectures. Start with PPC and sparc64 since they're already fielded and widely used, then work on ia64 and x86-64 after that. I say this because x86 won't be around forever....look at all the consolidation and standardization among consumer PC's already...the trend is toward 'set top boxes' but I think it's been slowed with the tech economy's depression. Intel's insane price cuts on CPU's can only be hastening this devastation of profit margins.
With a commerical advocate in Wasabi Systems, NetBSD is poised to make a big splash in the growing embedded/wireless business and might well be the OS for anyone interested in wireless applications to focus on.