FreeBSD, Stealthy Open Source Project

zam4ever writes "Sean Michael Kerner has written an article on how FreeBSD has become a Stealth-Growth Open Source Project with various reasons outlined for FreeBSD's growth over the last years."

Screw this

[Anonymous Coward]

If the article says "leverage the strengths" it's not for me.

Somebody's on a role here...

[Sneeka2]

Woah, 3 devils on the main page (for me at least), all posted within a few minutes. Is BSD dying faster today or are they simply on Speed?

Ken Brown: Don't Read This Without Assistance

[corporatemutantninja]

Uh oh. I read the sentence "Linux actually inherits a lot of BSD code" and immdiately thought of Ken Brown. Ken, if you're reading this (or having it translated into a version using only monosyllabic words) be advised that the preceding quote refers to GNU/Linux, not the Linux kernel that Linux wrote in a year.

FreeBSD is Undead

[Anonymous Coward]

It is now official. FreeBSD is Undead.

It has long been argued that FreeBSD is dead, but now new evidence is coming to light that it has been resurrected, and like a zombie process is lurching across the Unix landscape once again.

Recent growth in FreeBSD's market share, as reported by Slashdot, is evidence that a Faustian pact with the daemons has been made. Stay tuned for more on this recent development...

Re:FreeBSD is Undead

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Maybe BSD users are like the lurkers on /. and usenet.

They are millions of them, but they don't talk much.

Maybe they're....watching us right now!! ......

Re:Ken Brown: Don't Read This Without Assistance

[corporatemutantninja]

Why does everyone always mod me up to "funny"? Goddammit, I'm trying to make a point here.

Re:FreeBSD is Undead

[Big Nothing]

Yes, we are.

But we do one thing well!

[RAMMS+EIN]

``After all, the *NIX (or *BSD) motto is: do one thing, do it well.''

I think the arguing goes really well.

Re:"Stealthy"?

[Black Jack Hyde]

Nonetheless, there are people out there who will sell you FreeBSD [freebsdmall.com] or the Brooklyn Bridge [chron.com].

Okay! I get the point already! The answer is "No"!

[Anonymous Writer]

Ever see those movies Airplane [yahoo.com] and Airplane 2 [yahoo.com]? You know how there's those scenes where everyone forms a line to bitch-slap a hysterical passenger? Well that's what's going on here with all the "No" replies I'm getting. I already got a satisfactory boolean answer with the first posted reply- enough already! I was just wondering if OS X Server was getting market share but appeared as FreeBSD online, the way Safari identifies itself as Mozilla to web servers. I was just curious. I got responses from people who know their stuff. The matter is closed. Move along.

Best of breed?

[PCM2]

In FreeBSD, you get the filesystem, the kernel, a shell... all developed by the same group of SW engineers. In GNU/Linux, you get a Kernel from kernel.org a filesystem from Hans Reiser a shell from GNU, etc...

Wouldn't the appropriate way to sell Linux be, then, to describe it as a "best-of-breed system"?

Re:competition with Linux

[endx7]

Example: Linux makes a darn good high-traffic web server, but FreeBSD makes an even better one. However, you won't see too many (or any) companies working on porting FreeBSD to wristwatches or big-iron supercomputers like you do with Linux because the FreeBSD kernel doesn't scale well in either direction.

That's what NetBSD is for. I'm typing this on my NetBSD toaster.

Re:FreeBSD is an OS, Linux isn't....

[Anonymous Coward]

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