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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Are the BSDs dying? Post 303012179 by dodona on Wednesday 31st of January 2018 09:17:22 AM

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Are the BSDs dying?

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The open source Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) versions of UNIX suffer from a lack of eyeballs on their code, and that hurts their security

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a quick google search making clear that this isn't really new, and if we look at our bsd Forum we see that its the only operation systems forum with the last comment dated to June last year, whereas all the others have more recent comments.
One comment dated to 2014 is exactly what I think of this issue:

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Linux is developed by many companies, individuals, and institutions on constant basis, so the quality of the code and capabilities of Linux generally surpass every OS out there minus some very specialized ones a la z/os specifically designed to work on mainframes. Nowadays, all is see is how feature A from Linux is going to get ported to BSD, never the other way around, which suggests that all BSD projects are dead or dying of they have completely stagnated.

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Beside windows, there will be only linux in a near future.

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globus_url_t

globus_url_t(3) 						   globus common						   globus_url_t(3)

NAME

       globus_url_t -

SYNOPSIS

   Data Fields
       char * scheme
       globus_url_scheme_t scheme_type
       char * user
       char * password
       char * host
       unsigned short port
       char * url_path
       char * dn
       char * attributes
       char * scope
       char * filter
       char * url_specific_part

Detailed Description
       Parsed URLs.

       This structure contains the fields which were parsed from an string representation of an URL. There are no methods to access fields of this
       structure.

Field Documentation
   char* globus_url_t::scheme
       A string containing the URL's scheme (http, ftp, etc)

   globus_url_scheme_t globus_url_t::scheme_type
       An enumerated scheme type. This is derived from the scheme string

   char* globus_url_t::user
       The username portion of the URL. [ftp, gsiftp]

   char* globus_url_t::password
       The user's password from the URL. [ftp, gsiftp]

   char* globus_url_t::host
       The host name or IP address of the URL. [ftp, gsiftp, http, https, ldap, x-nexus

   unsigned short globus_url_t::port
       The TCP port number of the service providing the URL [ftp, gsiftp, http, https, ldap, x-nexus].

   char* globus_url_t::url_path
       The path name of the resource on the service providing the URL. [ftp, gsiftp, http, https]

   char* globus_url_t::dn
       The distinguished name for the base of an LDAP search. [ldap]

   char* globus_url_t::attributes
       The list of attributes which should be returned from an LDAP search. [ldap]

   char* globus_url_t::scope
       The scope of an LDAP search. [ldap]

   char* globus_url_t::filter
       The filter to be applied to an LDAP search [ldap].

   char* globus_url_t::url_specific_part
       An unparsed string containing the remaining text after the optional host and port of an unknown URL, or the contents of a x-gass-cache URL
       [x-gass-cache, unknown].

Author
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Version 14.7							  Tue Nov 27 2012						   globus_url_t(3)