Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

[Devin Teske]

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> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robison, Dave
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 10:53 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
> 
> Using primarily FreeBSD, and in fact, still FreeBSD 4.11 (we are in the process of
> upgrading to 8.x now), our systems moved well over 1.6 trillion dollars in business
> to business financial transactions last year.
> 
> I'd hardly call that irrelevant.

I'm with you man! That's over 10% of the current national debt ceiling!

Yet, I you and I still have co-workers that continue to claim that BSD is a toy and indeed irrelevant; even when faced with CARP, HAST, Jails, ZFS, and other great features that don't exist on any other operating system.

I say to Mr. Poettering and our similarly-hethenistic brethren that:
Just because BSD isn't relevant to you, surely you are irrelevant to BSD.
...and...
Don't you worry your pretty little head about the nasty (and totally irrelevant) BSD [[tounge in cheek]]. That beastie won't bother you any more ** until it's time to overtake your market share (muahaha).
-- 
Devin


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> 
> 
> On 07/17/2011 04:10, Jerry wrote:
> > While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of
> > juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather
> > interesting post this morning.
> >
> > "Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore"
> >
> > <http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0020243/Lennart-Poettering-BSD
> > -Isnt-Relevant-Anymore>
> >
> > Interestingly enough, a great deal of it is true. It might be
> > interesting to know how others feel about it. Obviously, asking that
> > question on this forum is like playing against a stacked deck;
> > however, it still might prove interesting.
> >
> 
> 
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