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 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
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
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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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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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