Google would crush them, or maybe just buy them instead, that's why.

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

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Read Le Monde and get back to me.

No one in their right mind would install or use any Google or Meta app. I'm glad to see common sense prevailing at WashPo for a change.

You know the French "loi pour la sécurité intérieure de 2003" criminalized things like "insulting the tricolor flag" and blowing a whistle while La Marseillaise is being sung, right?

I assume you're also aware of the more recent French laws passed that made deportation much easier, right?

One of the things you can get busted for there is having a protest without a permit. Online activity is criminalized in ways that would never fly under the US constitution. Committing these kinds of crimes is definitely grounds for deportation in France. I mean, they banned fucking hijabs.

Yes, they feared exactly that. Who are you referring to?

AI will be doing the tests too.

I'm retiring, best of luck to you.

I have the opposite experience, but I've probably been building and running databases for longer than your coworker has been alive.

It doesn't have to be perfect, it only has to be as good as an average programmer.

Maintain code?

The LLM can just regenerate it from scratch almost for free.

See other responses from people who understand the subject, this isn't "Informative".

Good answer, moderators take note.

To expand on this: those in the industry tend to talk about load (i.e. power) more than capacity (i.e. energy) since the latter is more or less assumed by convention to be unlimited. Given how the grid works (generation must equal load and maintain frequency or Bad Things happen), this focus makes sense.

I like Caesar dressing on my word salad, and extra croutons.

Care to respond in English next time? I'm fluent in Spanish and do OK in German too if you'd do better in those languages.

Please provide a quote that even hints that I am "OK with interfering in everyone else's" ...

Rights come with responsibilities, which you would know by kindergarten if you were properly educated.

Foreign interference in our politics was one of the great fears of the founders of this country, or did you fail both compulsory years of American History?