"Some" researchers are saying the BSDs are dying so it must be true, huh? "Read it on the internet, hot damn, must be true then." Bullshit! The BSDs have a large community that is passionate about their choice of operating system. I have been using OpenBSD since 1998 and I will only stop using it once the community completely collapses, development ceases, and the foundation folds. The day that happens, I will have to find another hobby altogether and just keep a smartphone and tablet handy. Learning and us
For me it wasn't OpenBSD, it was NetBSD (evicting VMS from VAXen).
I get heartily sick of the OS wars, you use the correct tool for the job (regardless off zealotry. I used to be a toolchain maintainer for a "From Source" pseudo linux distro)
I use OpenBSD (my own custom built perimeter devices), *BSD (Vendor supplied storage devices, load balancing gear, network gear ie: EMC/F5/Juniper), Solaris (backend "have to stay up forever" devices, predominately databases), Linux (Frontend scale-out services, OpenStack base) and Windows/MS (AAA via AD (RFC2307-bis + Krb5), ADFS, Azure AD, Hyper-V).
All of these (including windows) got to where they were with code derived from the *BSD's
Is BSD dying?, go ask all the vendors using it for your black box devices
(Was going somewhere with this, but my train of thought left the station)
No (Score:5, Interesting)
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I get heartily sick of the OS wars, you use the correct tool for the job (regardless off zealotry. I used to be a toolchain maintainer for a "From Source" pseudo linux distro)
I use OpenBSD (my own custom built perimeter devices), *BSD (Vendor supplied storage devices, load balancing gear, network gear ie: EMC/F5/Juniper), Solaris (backend "have to stay up forever" devices, predominately databases), Linux (Frontend scale-out services, OpenStack base) and Windows/MS (AAA via AD (RFC2307-bis + Krb5), ADFS, Azure AD, Hyper-V).
All of these (including windows) got to where they were with code derived from the *BSD's
Is BSD dying?, go ask all the vendors using it for your black box devices
(Was going somewhere with this, but my train of thought left the station)