It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save *BSD from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
The only reason people are using Linux and not FreeBSD is because all the cloud vendors are only able to use CentOS/RedHat and nothing else. Where's the FreeBSD cloud servers? There ARE NONE. Why? 1) Impairs performance... cloud servers are a joke for performance. Your virtual server lacks basic network configurability like TCP offload, RAID hardware features, and is hindered by other VPS's running on the same physical machine. 2) Most of the servers out there running VPS's are using Xen, whic
Other popular memes usually pertain to computing or technology, such as "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these",[51] "But does it run Linux?",[52] or "Netcraft now confirms: BSD (or some other software package or item) is dying."[53]
lol i'm not sure if i just haven't been browsing bsd sotries, there haven't been as many of them or this old slashdot comment hasn't been around for awhile.
brings back fond memories of bsd stories spammed with the exact same thing, more than any other comments.
Opinion is NOT Fact. BSD is very much alive and well - *that* is a fact. It's far superior to GNU/Linux in nearly every way. Too bad closed-minded fucktards like you can't see that.
A copy of the article: (Score:4, Funny)
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save *BSD from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
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What a BS reply.
The only reason people are using Linux and not FreeBSD is because all the cloud vendors are only able to use CentOS/RedHat and nothing else. Where's the FreeBSD cloud servers? There ARE NONE. Why?
1) Impairs performance... cloud servers are a joke for performance. Your virtual server lacks basic network configurability like TCP offload, RAID hardware features, and is hindered by other VPS's running on the same physical machine.
2) Most of the servers out there running VPS's are using Xen, whic
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Re:A copy of the article: (Score:5, Informative)
Where's the FreeBSD cloud servers? There ARE NONE.
You mean like RootBSD [rootbsd.net]?
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Or this...
http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/
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Whoosh!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot [wikipedia.org]:
Other popular memes usually pertain to computing or technology, such as "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these",[51] "But does it run Linux?",[52] or "Netcraft now confirms: BSD (or some other software package or item) is dying."[53]
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lol i'm not sure if i just haven't been browsing bsd sotries, there haven't been as many of them or this old slashdot comment hasn't been around for awhile.
brings back fond memories of bsd stories spammed with the exact same thing, more than any other comments.
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Oh, seen this comment a couple of times now. Do you just copy paste it on every BSD article you find.?
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Nice try, idiot.
Opinion is NOT Fact. BSD is very much alive and well - *that* is a fact. It's far superior to GNU/Linux in nearly every way. Too bad closed-minded fucktards like you can't see that.