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.
Sad because Theo was drama king of the internet for a while. His flame wars were legendary. Also FreeBSD is better than linux and always will be even after bsd is dead.
The freebsd community is the one that banned hugs, merit, amongst other innocuous things because it may have been triggering to certain individuals. I think that is one of the key reasons they're hemorrhaging devs.
OpenBSD is going to be around for some time though - Theo's an abrasive genius who has managed to get on the Canadian government gravy train of grants for the project. There's also the fact that OpenBSD is basically the final word in secure operating systems
Pale Moon is an open-source web browser with an emphasis on customizability
i.e. a browser specifically made to be as unnecessarily complicated as possible with a billion keyboard shortcuts no one who values their time can be bothered to memorize, all just to look at web pages, and comes with the Linux-style toxicity to boot. Miss me with that shit.
Are the pale moon guys furries or hippies or both? The first guy said "Also, Moonchild will respond in his own time" about the actual project maintainer (who goes by "wolfbeast" btw) so I sense other delicious drama around them!
29 comments
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-04-05
Pure autism! Smh
1 scatmunchies 2018-04-05
This settles it - I will definitely not use this browser I’ve never heard of produced by assholes I don’t know.
1 BussyShillBot 2018-04-05
Did you know that the bathtub was first marketed in north america as a horse trough and hog scalder?
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1 wwyzzerdd 2018-04-05
BSD users (and its derivatives) are all mentally deficient.
1 Coats_Unbuttoned 2018-04-05
Linux is for faggots and beta males. Just upgrade to Windows 10 already, you whiny cunts.
1 Andy_Schlafly 2018-04-05
Pale moon user detected
1 Coats_Unbuttoned 2018-04-05
Linux soyboy BTFO
1 toynbeeidea16 2018-04-05
1 Coats_Unbuttoned 2018-04-05
The Chad willful ignorance vs. the virgin comprehension.
1 3E4K3RWRGZPR970NVH28 2018-04-05
How many people could there possibly be that would be using pale moon on bsd? Like 10?
1 toynbeeidea16 2018-04-05
I actually use palemoon, because of all the existing browsers its the least terrible option... But it isn't great.
1 3E4K3RWRGZPR970NVH28 2018-04-05
I'm so sorry for you.
1 toynbeeidea16 2018-04-05
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
1 syllabic 2018-04-05
Sad because Theo was drama king of the internet for a while. His flame wars were legendary. Also FreeBSD is better than linux and always will be even after bsd is dead.
1 JuliaAssange 2018-04-05
Now you've gone and made me think about Natalie Portman, naked and petrified.
1 Andy_Schlafly 2018-04-05
The freebsd community is the one that banned hugs, merit, amongst other innocuous things because it may have been triggering to certain individuals. I think that is one of the key reasons they're hemorrhaging devs.
OpenBSD is going to be around for some time though - Theo's an abrasive genius who has managed to get on the Canadian government gravy train of grants for the project. There's also the fact that OpenBSD is basically the final word in secure operating systems
1 wwyzzerdd 2018-04-05
TempleOS is the most secure.
1 backltrack 2018-04-05
I want to build the first templeos botnet now
1 RelevantEmployment 2018-04-05
googling
i.e. a browser specifically made to be as unnecessarily complicated as possible with a billion keyboard shortcuts no one who values their time can be bothered to memorize, all just to look at web pages, and comes with the Linux-style toxicity to boot. Miss me with that shit.
1 uniqueguy263 2018-04-05
So Firefox?
1 toynbeeidea16 2018-04-05
Palemoon is Firefox, minus the cancer.
1 PotatoePizza 2018-04-05
I am not autistic enough to understand the Drama.
1 ricardogce 2018-04-05
Developers of a fringer-than-fringe web browser managed to get their product removed from OpenBSD by being asshats to someone with actual power.
1 zergling_Lester 2018-04-05
Surprisingly nice drama, thanks!
Are the pale moon guys furries or hippies or both? The first guy said "Also, Moonchild will respond in his own time" about the actual project maintainer (who goes by "wolfbeast" btw) so I sense other delicious drama around them!
1 toynbeeidea16 2018-04-05
Furries.
1 ricardogce 2018-04-05
Free software developers with a cult following have egos that would make Steve Jobs blush.
Tobin turns on the charm in another thread
1 buttcoinbuttcoin 2018-04-05
Zero drama about code of conduct? I am disappoint OP.
1 Andy_Schlafly 2018-04-05
That's FreeBSD you're thinking of.
1 buttcoinbuttcoin 2018-04-05
Too many shitty open source Linux projects, I can't keep track.
1 Andy_Schlafly 2018-04-05
Thats why you have autists to keep track of them for you c: