FreeBSD Turns Twenty-One Years Old

[nslay]

@endman

No worries, you may become the next classic when FreeBSD turns 42!

I can see it now ...

I remember that time when that one guy had 5 sock puppet accounts, his own blog, and probably a youtube channel who said BSD sucked and was dying. I guess he was wrong. FreeBSD is now 42 years old!

[endman]

future nslay using FreeBSD 20.1

You mean:

Mac OSX has only apple EULA license code in it.

[nslay]

21 years of mediocre crap
21 years of crappy usability
21 years of appalling design
21 years of record beating failed project management
21 years of fueling proprietary software
21 years of making possible the enslavement of billions of innocent people through Apple and M$
21 years of making trolling
21 years of hurting Linux
21 years of hidden atrocities

There is nothing to celebrate and nothing to be proud of. Shame on you BSD.



it's true that predictions of BSD's end was historically too early but we can't ignore the fact that all BSDs have been slowing by steadily losing ground since the dot-com crash in 2001. BSD is system performance and graphics have been falling further and further behind Linux. USB was a huge PR disaster for BSD. Today BSD can barely support KMS which has solid Linux support for several years now. New and important features such as Wayland, GPU programming, advance security etc. are still totally absent from BSD while it's solidly supported on Linux. And now look at the BSD presentations at XDC2014, all the BSDs there had to admit that they lack manpower and even the capability to make proper decisions to get involved with current technologies.

Watch these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POmxFleN3Bc (Xorg on FreeBSD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KopgD4nTtnA (Xorg on OpenBSD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdM7_yPGFDk (Xorg on DragonflyBSD)

Nothing but embarrassment, regrets, fear of systemd and admission to failure. OpenBSD admit that they don't event have full KMS support for both Intel and Radeon and then they can't implement it due to them sticking to GCC 4.2. DragonflyBSD admits that they have to copy Linus driver interfaces because they cannot port any drivers. I can imagine how XDC2019 will be like (BSD people: We have failed.)

BSD IS DECLINING there is not doubt about that.



Before the dot-com bust of 2001, FreeBSD actually have 40% of the server usage share while Linux had 60%. This relatively heavy usage of BSD was responsive for the dot-com bust in 2001 as BSD couldn't handle the y2k problem and people realized that BSD derived code was way over valued for all it's worth. After then people learn and Linux dominated while BSD server usage share steadily shrink below 1%.



It's hilarious that all BSD fanboys are accusing all anti-BSD intellectuals as one person just to fun from the fact that a lot of people hate BSD.



Yet you still haven't returned to it. Says a lot. If you have really evaluated PC-BSD properly, you would have concluded that PC-BSD is further from the desktop that it was in 2006. It's slower, more bloated, works on less hardware then even FreeBSD, uses a RAM consuming file system called ZFS, no games (contrary to myth, Minecraft cannot run on PC-BSD or for that matter, any BSD).



That's the reason not to use BSD either as a Desktop, server or embedded. Systemd's design and layout takes in to account the modern requirements of computing and frees Linux from dogmatic UNIX philosophy that have for so long impeded FLOSS advancement. The UNIX philosophy and UNIX itself originated from the proprietary world from AT&T. It is a proprietary concept based on dogma that was never adequate even for it's time and the honorable Lenard Peottering is saving us from that.

That's not to say BSD follows the UNIX philosophy. BSD has been renowned for drifting so far from standards that it's so difficult to maintain the BSD ports of X11 and other DEs and now BSD devs are paying the price in which they can't port over graphics, wifi and peripheral drivers. Tell me, why is it that BSD has no free driver for BCM4313 and Nvidia even though bcm43xx and Nouveau are BSD licensed? And why is Wayland not in BSD what it is BSD licensed?

Credit is due where it is due. BSD can't escape this.

I have to say endman, it's not really as articulate as:

http://www.everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying

Try to make it more articulate and more like a template so that it can be copied and pasted to slashdot or phoronix.

I like dramatic stuff to like: "Red ink flows like a river of blood." Try to incorporate these effects into your troll posts.

[Sergio]

I have to say endman, it's not really as articulate as:

http://www.everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying

My exact though...
endman (Pawlerson, etc), you have to do better in order to reach legendary status like the original "BSD is dying"...

[MoonMoon]

bullshit...

... anti-BSD intellectuals ...

...bullshit

Ahahahaha, this really made my day.

But it actually shows what really is happening here: a pathetic looser tries to increase his self esteem by writing hate posts (using multiple sock puppets to make his claims look more legitim and to keep threads active when nobody falls for his trolling) about an open source OS that he perceives to be inferior, so that he can feel more elite by stating that he uses the allegedly superior OS. Much like Windows fanboys do when Linux is the topic.

[nslay]

Ahahahaha, this really made my day.

But it actually shows what really is happening here: a pathetic looser tries to increase his self esteem by writing hate posts (using multiple sock puppets to make his claims look more legitim and to keep threads active when nobody falls for his trolling) about an open source OS that he perceives to be inferior, so that he can feel more elite by stating that he uses the allegedly superior OS. Much like Windows fanboys do when Linux is the topic.

Clearly the troll has been trolled. Who would have guessed?

[wikinevick]

...
21 years of hurting Linux
...

How could they hurt something that didn't even existed 21 years ago?

It's hilarious that all BSD fanboys are accusing all anti-BSD intellectuals as one person just to fun from the fact that a lot of people hate BSD.

If a loser like endman can consider himself an intellectual, and that's all they got, I am pretty sure the BSDs are safe. We will be celebrating FreeBSD birthdays for a long LONG time.