- Linux and FreeBSD become analogs to Windows and Mac OS X today, after Microsoft and Apple collapse.
- Anonix gains a rising userbase and talk of the "year of the Anonix desktop" becomes common.
- MIT reinstantiates 6.001 after issuing a final Third Edition of SICP.
- Java and .NET decline in preference to a combination of C, Asm, and very-high-level languages.
- The Eternal September of /prog/ is finally over.
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Anonymous2009-03-27 7:02
>>2 Linux and FreeBSD become analogs to Windows and Mac OS X today, after Microsoft and Apple collapse.
i can imagine that; linfags are almost as pretentious as macfags
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Anonymous2009-03-27 7:17
>>3
BSDfags are even worse than linfags - while they won't rage if somebody asks "wat is BSD?", they will heavily imply that their system is not only the superior one, but also the only good one.
In every. Single. Sentence.
Macfags are faggots, which automatically makes them pretentious, but also spoiled kids and computer-illiterate idiots.
Winfags would be pretentious if their system wasn't the main desktop OS. They would probably be just like macfags minus the "spoiled kid of rich parents" part.
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Anonymous2009-03-27 7:47
they will heavily imply that their system is not only the superior one, but also the only good one. In every. Single. Sentence.
So what? Does the truth hurt?
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Anonymous2009-03-27 7:50
BSD IS DA BEST （｀ー´）
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Anonymous2009-03-27 7:52
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.
>>7 It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
I'm impressed with that use of punctuation: a semicolon followed by a colon. Might I someday wield the powers of meta-language as skillfully.
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Anonymous2009-03-27 16:00
>>7
I remember writing a /prog/ variant of that, but I can't find it in the archive... Maybe it was for some other board.
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Anonymous2009-03-27 16:00
LISP compiles to native optimized code which runs faster then C and D++ on Core12.
>>10
You do know that colons and semicolons are used to denote breaks in the sentence; the semicolon is intended as a shorter break than the colon.
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Anonymous2009-03-28 9:25
Semi-colon? Like remains of haxed anuses? I see it in sepples alot.
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Anonymous2009-03-28 10:37
My father was... a haskeller. And a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the side effects to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not. One. Bit.
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Anonymous2009-03-28 13:24
-Every language that has ever existed has been successfully ported to .NET 7.6 SP3.
-Mono is still working on .NET 4.3 SP1.
-Steve Jobs dies of cancer and without proper, solid leadership, investors get scared and dump the stock. MS pounces and buys Apple for a measly $5.4bil.
-Upon this mess of integrating Apple+MS, MS announces new .NET predecessor. Mono cries.
-2020 is announced as the year of the Linux desktop (which, surprisingly, has 30% market share).
-/prog/ has changed nothing.
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Anonymous2009-03-28 13:32
2019: GNU and Linux have parted ways. RMS Matthew Stallman and Linux Tarballs have a bad argument over free beer. LT kills RMS; he shares a prison cell with Reiser. Luckily, Reiser hasn't forgotten the ``abstract bullshite'' and together with Tarballs, creates the best OS ever devised.
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