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>>53650413
gotta love the BSD now podcast.
just built a NAS using FreeBSD and putting it to good use
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>>53650413
Realtek wireless network device get 11n in base (head).
https://secure.freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r297175
Autofs improve -hosts robustness, -E parameter added to showmount(8).:
https://secure.freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r297207
ARM64 copyinout improvements:
https://secure.freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r297209
>>53650413
I had a honeymoon with PC-BSD somewhen in the last couple of years in a workstation. Is there anything truly groundbreaking and awesome coming up for 11.0 that may make me consider repeating it?
>>53651566
>inb4 WhatsNew/FreeBSD11
MacOS/iOS/FreeNAS/PFSense masterrace reporting.
>>53651566
>>53651580
Many thing just look at commit history from ASLR to "new" shinny intel DRM.
>>53652369
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2016-March/017719.html
>>53650413
Nothing new here, sometimes I forget 5.9 isn't released yet.
> Enjoying the native ZFS love
Was wondering though how i could import all zpools at startup?
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.
>>53653988
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
>>53653988
Maybe OpenBSD, but FreeBSD is as strong as ever. Have you even used BSD?
>>53650413
What kind of Linux distro is this?
>>53653988
how stale is this pasta? 2003?
>>53654057
none
the Linux Kernel has nothing to do with BSD's they have their own kernel and are derived from ATT research Unix. I'm not giving you a (you) faggot.
> Maybe OpenBSD
uninterrupted 6 month releases for decades
>>53654057
It's different OS, my friend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD
