FreeBSD 5.1 Review and BSD Roundup 385
securitas writes "Both eWEEK's review of FreeBSD 5.1 and ExtremeTech's BSD overview and roundup (single page) will be of interest to BSDers and anyone else who wants to explore their open source OS options. The review of FreeBSD 5.1 says it lacks the stability of v4.8 but adds features that some may find useful (for example, more processor architectures are supported) so it shouldn't be considered for critical deployments yet. And the BSD round-up speaks for itself."
I'm not sure I get the analogy (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure I get the analogy, but I *think* he just said *BSD is dying.
I always recommend FreeBSD (Score:5, Funny)
I've been able to do this in the past with a a few Fortune 500 companies by implementing a strict B2C affinity marketing plan which relies heavily on E-mediation performance metrics, something that not everyone is willing to go through.
In short, don't even come to me with questions about your Value chain collaborative commerce unless you're willing to pay the piper and upgrade to FreeBSD because this is not your daddy's economy and you'll get nowhere by running legacy operating systems. Times have changed and unless you're willing to change with them you'll be left behind wondering what the hell happened to all your profits.
Warmest regards,
--Jack
Sounds familiar... (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't this what has been said about Windows for quite some time?
A review or a re-write of the 5.1 release notes? (Score:3, Funny)
Lacking stability?! (Score:3, Funny)
A BSD lacking stability? *universe explodes*
Re:I tried it, I liked it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:FreeBSD should support more NICs than ARCHes (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Whoa to those who abuse moderation (Score:3, Funny)
What does me living somewhere in a dodecahedral shape have to do with what timezone I live in?
Oh you mean geographic, not geometric... Never mind...
Re:I tried it, I liked it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:bsd problems (Score:2, Funny)
I owned a Dual Pentium Pro 200 running NT4. What's even funnier is I owned it and the poor fool didn't discover I was serving MP3s (with Gnutella protocol) until about two months later! I did this by hiding the crackapp name of my custom gnutella server from the POSIX tasklist and only would serve the MP3s to the Gnutella network while another filetransfer was active by the local user. 1337 cr4x0r h47h 0wn3d j00!
My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times.
That's not uncommon. I own a 486/25 with 4MB of RAM, S3 video, XFree86-3.3.5, and I telnet to my GS140 AlphaServer, issue a "export DISPLAY='192.168.1.66:0.0'," and finish it off with a "darkplaces >/dev/null 2>&1." I get Icculus' DarkPlaces Quake1 engine [icculus.org] playing on my 486/25 machine at about 300 frames per second in software rendering, but alas my 486/25 can effectivly only update the X Server display at about 20 frames per second. Still, my 487/25 is playing DarkPlaces twice as fast as your Pentium3/800! That makes my freeBSD 486/25 much faster than your measly Pentium3/800! And with Linux on the GS140, I have a great team-alliance for stability and performance.
You realy need to ditch that M1cr0$l07h W1nd0z3 NT4 in favor of an operating system that can at-least handle more than four CPUs and USB/Firewire, becuase NT4 is sooo-obsolete, same for ActiveDirectory and IIS; just use Apache/FetchMail/ProFTP
Re:Sorry, but YFI (Score:4, Funny)
Ever heard of the BS bingo ? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:FreeBSD should support more NICs than ARCHes (Score:3, Funny)
Apparently you should've brought your own token, too.
(Wishing I knew how to find a link to that Dilbert strip where PHB is searching his office for the token.)
s/BSD/Linux (Score:4, Funny)
If you want x86 Unix with some commercial support, there is Linux. If you just want commercial support, there is Windows.
You can still get the commercial apps to work on BSD (and some may be native), but that's not why you are using it. You are using it because you are a geek and you're not a slashbot, macophile, amiga-freak, microsoftie, or aol-er. Also, you don't like getting 0wn3d.
Re:Actually... (Score:2, Funny)
Never. See, these FreeBSD guys are slackers. They're clearly releasing beta code and calling it final. Every Microsoft release is Better, Faster, Easier to Use, More Stable and Reliable than Ever (tm), and helps You Do More Faster. FreeBSD needs to get its act together before it dies out.
Humorless moderators, please consult your sarcasm meters before exercising your mystical powers.
Re:X problems (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm not sure I get the analogy (Score:1, Funny)