KDE Developer: PC-BSD 'Will Surpass Linux on Desktop by 2020'

[JX8p]

KDE developer Luke Wolf has made a bold prediction: he expects that, by 2020, PC-BSD will surely overtake Linux on the desktop.

http://lukewolf.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/a-prediction-2020-year-of-pc-bsd-on.html

[jake_lesser]

This Luke_Wolf BSD fanboy who calls himself a "KDE developer" need to start taking his meds. PC-BSD is a cluster f__k of a project and an OS and has been f__k up package management, their init system and system performance. It was slightly better in the 2000s but has since become worse. Lately, it's been copying linux pkg management. There no more PBIs, that's gone and replaced essentially with packages and dependencies with on Linux. PC-BSD also seem to have lost focus on what is important. They have slow inits, slow performance, no ASLR, no stack protection for 3rd party apps and lack driver support but they decide to build their own DE when there are other far better ones around.

It's more correct to predict that PC-BSD along with shady evil, corrupt corp iXsystems will disappear by 2020.

[jake_lesser]

PC-BSD is built on a system that is defective by design. That's why it will fail. I am talking about FreeBSD. Just watch this and see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh2b2GxU4Hg

This video should be shown as an introduction video for new BSD users.

[jake_lesser]

This is how slow at boot up PC-BSD is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hQkhyTOpks

And how horrible it's UX is and it's sluggishness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3U7AZ3y1w

[TiberiusDuval]

... it's been copying linux pkg management. There no more PBIs, that's gone and replaced essentially with packages and dependencies with on Linux....

Since when FreeBSD's pkgng (also PC-BSD's package manager) has been a copy of Linux package management? As far as I know it is not based on either rpm, or deb systems, or any other linux package management system.

[jake_lesser]

Since when FreeBSD's pkgng (also PC-BSD's package manager) has been a copy of Linux package management? As far as I know it is not based on either rpm, or deb systems, or any other linux package management system.

apt-get update - pkg update
apt-get upgrade - pkg upgrade
apt-get/yum install - pkg install
apt-get/yum remove - pkg remove
apt-get autoremove - pkg autoremove
apt-get clean - pkg clean
aptitude/yum search - pkg search

NetBSD's pkgin also does the same. It shows BSD has ran out of ideas.

[jake_lesser]

BSD in general is truly on the decline. This sysadmin explains that FreeBSD is inferior on the servers compared to Ubuntu which is a desktop oriented system:

http://www.section6.net/2011/07/why-...earned-to.html

The same for OpenBSD. Ubuntu is better suited from anything then OpenBSD:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum...-admin-s-story
http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2...odbye-openbsd/

The statistics prove the decline of BSD (source: w3techs):


And believe it or not, Linux is taking over:

[nasyt]

And believe it or not, Linux is taking over:

The most Servers are used to host some humble MySQL+PHP Stacks.

They massively use virtualisation and clustering (Cloud-Computing), where around 10 Linux-Systems run a single website. This scheme is used to provide Fail-Over, which is needed hence Linux isn't a really stable system.

Linux, which certainly doesn't has its strength in Networking, is also used by some networking projects until they want to scale up and then desperately move everything into their Application. Intel has released DPDK which frees them from the fate of bad networking Support.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D09jdbS6oSI

In fact, those Sites, which have the need for really high throughput will install an Addon TCP/IP stack, which updates their Home-Computer OS with a carrier class Networking Stack.

http://www.mcorelab.com/product-rt.html

[TiberiusDuval]

apt-get update - pkg update
apt-get upgrade - pkg upgrade
apt-get/yum install - pkg install
apt-get/yum remove - pkg remove
apt-get autoremove - pkg autoremove
apt-get clean - pkg clean
aptitude/yum search - pkg search

NetBSD's pkgin also does the same. It shows BSD has ran out of ideas.

Umm common english words used as commands means copying. Quite weak argument.
Or should they had used commands like:
pkg erewrew
pkg rtruyuy
pkg zxywftf
and so on to not "copy" linux pkg tools.

[jake_lesser]

Umm common english words used as commands means copying. Quite weak argument.
Or should they had used commands like:
pkg erewrew
pkg rtruyuy
pkg zxywftf
and so on to not "copy" linux pkg tools.

It's still copying Linux. That's the facts. If wanted to avoid it, they should have done this:

pkg fetchrepo # For updating repo data
pkg upgrade all-installed # For upgrading software
pkg install package # For installing 3rd party packages
pkg install base # For installing base packages (if they go ahead with this: https://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule...aging-base.pdf)
pkg remove package or pkg delete package # For removing 3rd party packages
pkg remove base or pkg delete base # For removing base packages
pkg remove package dep # For removing unused dependencies
pkg clear # For clearing old packages
pkg find # for searching repos