The Future of NetBSD 407
ErisCalmsme writes "In this email Charles Hannum (one of the founders of NetBSD) tells us that 'The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. It has gotten to the point that being associated with the project is often more of a liability than an asset. I will attempt to explain how this happened, what the current state of affairs is, and what needs to be done to attempt to fix the situation.' What will happen to NetBSD?"
Sounds bleak (Score:4, Funny)
I don't buy it though. It's free.
Netcraft? (Score:5, Funny)
Has Netcraft weighed in on this yet?
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I can't wait (Score:3, Funny)
Hang on, there's another angle, here.
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: "NetBSD is dying" trolls are dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered "NetBSD is dying" troll community when Slashdot confirmed that NetBSD is actually dying...
Re:Sounds bleak (Score:3, Funny)
Well, that's the point, isn't it? Nobody does.
(If you think there's the slightest chance this was meant to be funny, it was.)
Nature doing what it does best... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I can't wait (Score:3, Funny)
NetBSD confirms it: NetBSD is dying!
Obligatory quotes (Score:5, Funny)
How telling. (Score:4, Funny)
Freudian slip, apparently.
The real story here... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How many BSDs do we need? (Score:5, Funny)
If we all would just settle on Slackware, the ONE TRUE DISTRO, everything would be perfect.
(rumours start in the plaza)
- Slackware? Hah! No package management!The one true distro is Debian and its mighty apt-get!
...
- What are you saying? It's clearly Gentoo! You compile everything from source!
- Gentoo is for ricers! People that want their work done use Ubuntu!
- Ubuntu? I'm more comfortable with Suse and Novell support...
- What? Bear that RPM hell? Go use Knoppix!
- What about RPMs? On my Fedora work so well...
(everything in flames)
Freudian Slip??!? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What goes around comes around (Score:5, Funny)
Theo "voice of reason" de Raadt? Imagine that, someone not getting along with him. What are the odds, really?
Re:Nature doing what it does best... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds bleak (Score:5, Funny)
1. Take a perfectly good joke.
2. Emphasise it, highlight it, add a laugh track.
3. Et voila! American humor.
Re:Mergers and Acquisition (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sounds bleak (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mergers and Acquisition (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sounds bleak (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously though..six digit UIDs are not old school
Re:How many BSDs do we need? (Score:3, Funny)
It won't stop it from *booting*, but try booting FC4 with a vanilla kernel and then log in on the console - watch how it DOES NOT WORK. Seriously, try it. They have some PAM module that uses a procfs feature added by one of their kernel packages. It can be disabled, but it's definitely an example of a fairly normal operation that should work fine with a stock kernel, but manages to fail miserably.
Re:Not surprized (Score:3, Funny)
WAJM
We're All Just Monkeys
Re:Sounds bleak (Score:3, Funny)