Ah, the shameless trolling.
I'll humor you, and let's JUST say, (Although, I certainly disagree with your premise however.) FreeBSD is dying. What would your point be? It's still better than Linux, in more aspects than I have time to list here. Besides, The -core team won't evaporate, our community is too large, and too many skilled coders would love a commit bit.
(I've been running linux since kernel 0.99, and freebsd since kernel 2.2, I've got some clues about both os's, as I've hacked around in both kernels extensively too)
Well, going along with your logic, I guess Linux is dying too, since Microsoft still holds so much market share, and will continue to. Had you happened to notice the climb in w2k3 servers? It'd still be a POS no matter if 99% of Internet/Intranet Servers ran it. According to you, the open source community has quite a grim future.
I suppose you draw your conclusions differently,however I don't implement an operating system because it's the "hip" thing to do, or because of a "clique". Nor because, "everyone else does" - I run FreeBSD at every one of our locations, because I live and die based on how well my servers operate, and for the last ~10 years or so, I've been QUITE content thanks to FreeBSD. (There was a time I was quite content with Linux as well, that ended not long after the 2.0 kernel came on the scene, fyi.)
Fact: Clueless is as clueless does.
-mpf
p.s. don't forget, freebsd existed when it's user-base was not even 1/1000th of what it is today.
This stems from the author's inability (or he just plain doesn't care) to write cross-platform conforming code./STOP/ using linux headers in your code, and join the world of ANSI C already. Don't blame *BSD, or shall I begin a tirade about Linux because none of my audio applications written for Windows work in it? Makes just as much sense.
quote> it'd be nice to add some *new* AND *useful* tools.
You don't have to rely on ports to install stuff, I have to compile stuff manually quite often, ports is more of a "nicety". Might I also add, it's VERY common for me to have to FIX someone's code so it compiles on platforms other than Linux. (So much for skilled... programmers) If ports is full of crap, that'd be the "open source" community's fault for releasing shoddy/worthless code. The ports commiters just make it simplistic to compile with dependancies, they (usually) didn't write the stuff. Your post sounds more like trolling than a legitimate cry for help/suggestions.
(use nload if you're looking to see real-time traffic utilization on your console, including a nifty real-time ascii graph, and a gob of other configurable stuff - ooh-aah.)
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Ah, the shameless trolling.
I'll humor you, and let's JUST say, (Although, I certainly disagree with your premise however.) FreeBSD is dying. What would your point be? It's still better than Linux, in more aspects than I have time to list here. Besides, The -core team won't evaporate, our community is too large, and too many skilled coders would love a commit bit.
(I've been running linux since kernel 0.99, and freebsd since kernel 2.2, I've got some clues about both os's, as I've hacked around in both kernels extensively too)
Well, going along with your logic, I guess Linux is dying too, since Microsoft still holds so much market share, and will continue to. Had you happened to notice the climb in w2k3 servers? It'd still be a POS no matter if 99% of Internet/Intranet Servers ran it. According to you, the open source community has quite a grim future.
I suppose you draw your conclusions differently,however I don't implement an operating system because it's the "hip" thing to do, or because of a "clique". Nor because, "everyone else does" - I run FreeBSD at every one of our locations, because I live and die based on how well my servers operate, and for the last ~10 years or so, I've been QUITE content thanks to FreeBSD. (There was a time I was quite content with Linux as well, that ended not long after the 2.0 kernel came on the scene, fyi.)
Fact: Clueless is as clueless does.
-mpf p.s. don't forget, freebsd existed when it's user-base was not even 1/1000th of what it is today.
This stems from the author's inability (or he just plain doesn't care) to write cross-platform conforming code. /STOP/ using linux headers in your code, and join the world of ANSI C already. Don't blame *BSD, or shall I begin a tirade about Linux because none of my audio applications written for Windows work in it? Makes just as much sense.
... programmers) If ports is full of crap, that'd be the "open source" community's fault for releasing shoddy/worthless code. The ports commiters just make it simplistic to compile with dependancies, they (usually) didn't write the stuff. Your post sounds more like trolling than a legitimate cry for help/suggestions.
quote> it'd be nice to add some *new* AND *useful* tools.
You don't have to rely on ports to install stuff, I have to compile stuff manually quite often, ports is more of a "nicety". Might I also add, it's VERY common for me to have to FIX someone's code so it compiles on platforms other than Linux. (So much for skilled
(use nload if you're looking to see real-time traffic utilization on your console, including a nifty real-time ascii graph, and a gob of other configurable stuff - ooh-aah.)
-mpf