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    Is BSD dead?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by graycolor, Feb 12, 2010.

  1. graycolor

    graycolor Notebook Evangelist

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    Should I start using BSD, I'm afraid it will die :confused:
     
    graycolor, Feb 12, 2010
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    process, Feb 12, 2010
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  3. Ayle

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    It not dead. It's not mainstream enough. That's why it's only spoken off in certain circles. It is ranked 99th on Distrowatch though.
     
    Ayle, Feb 12, 2010
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    BSD will make you appreciate Linux, it did for me. ;)
     
    theZoid, Feb 14, 2010
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  5. Gintoki

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    Not dead at all. Living strong is what it is. Yahoo and many others use it on their servers. There's also a desktop community.
    FreeBSD - Wikipedia
     
    Gintoki, Mar 24, 2010
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Netcraft has confirmed that BSD is dying for at least the last 10 years.

    Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
     
    Pitabred, Mar 24, 2010
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    "Dying" in terms of mainstream use. It's very subjective. Fortran and B could be considered "dying", not dead.
     
    zephyrus17, Mar 24, 2010
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    haha...fortran...I had one semester of fortran in college...lot of good that did....lol (I was a business major...we all complained why the heck the instructor was teaching us fortran in an information technology class!) Didn't know that was still around.
     
    theZoid, Mar 24, 2010
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    So BSD, like Fortran, is probably only used by a very small group of people. Dying, not dead.
     
    zephyrus17, Mar 25, 2010
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  10. Joel

    Joel coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee

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    Well, I'm thinking of trying it! :)
     
    Joel, Mar 25, 2010
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    Good :D Beware of its bootloader.

    FreeBSD is ranked 12 by Distrowatch, ahead of Slackware, Gentoo and Kubuntu. Presumably they'll all die first :p :p

    Also, I'm pretty sure OSX relies on BSD for some of its code, even nowadays.
     
    Nankuru, Mar 25, 2010
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  12. theZoid

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    It will make Linux seem like windows as far as general compatibility....that is, once you use BSD for any length of time...you might try OpenSolaris...they've got the multimedia situation taken care of now as far as easily installing codecs.
     
    theZoid, Mar 25, 2010
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    Solaris is more dead than BSD...or so it seems. :D
     
    weinter, Mar 26, 2010
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  14. millermagic

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    I find it funny that sun solaris won't run on sun virtualbox.
     
    millermagic, Mar 26, 2010
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