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OpenBSD 2.7 Beta Out
vrkid writes: "Found this on OpenBSD Journal:
OpenBSD just moved up a notch in its minor number and is now at 7.
The first beta release of 2.7 is out. For people with strong stomachs,
a habit of banging the head against the wall and a love for testing
other's software: Download, install and send bug reports. "
I don't run BSD, but a typical problem with writing disk images is that dd writes in 512 byte chunks by default which is decidedly non-optimal. Try something like
dd if=foo.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
18kb is the size of one track on a 1.44MB floppy, so writing one track at a time should keep the drive busy and reduce the number of seeks etc it has to do. (Of course you probably have to adjust the device name etc etc)
You can read Theo's archive of emails during that time. NetBSD has mailling list archives that might provide some interesting info too.
:wq
Of what i remember (hopefully i remember correctly) from his archive (i.e. primarily his side of the story) he was kicked out fairly abruptly for "personality problems". I think the primary complaint was "abusing users and other developers" or something similar. I dont know any of the specifics of the "abuses". I've seen a couple (very funny) replies of his (such as "Well, i guess you're just stupid then.") that could be considered as sarcasm or as a flame, depending.
What everything came down to was some other guy with influence in NetBSD (i think his name was Charles) was causing some problems and wouldnt work out a deal with Theo to give him cvs write access and everyone wanted to impose rules on theo that didnt apply to others. NetBSD-CORE was a bit fucked and in a state of disorder. A lot of feelings got hurt. A half a year or so went buy, nothing changed and Theo started OpenBSD.
I'm sure that's not entirely right. But its close, i hope.