Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

EuroBSDCon 2002 Announced

Posted by timothy on from the time-to-start-working-on-management dept.

fvdl writes: "After last year's first EuroBSDCon confercence, another EuroBSDCon event will be held this year. EuroBSDCon 2002 will be held in November, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Announcement / Call For Papers can be found at the EuroBSDCon 2002 website. A great opportunity for BSD folks (especially the European ones) to meet and share experiences."

4 of 12 comments (clear)

  1. meat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and veg

  2. damn! by Noodlenose · · Score: 0, Troll
    I would love to go, but unfortunately I only speak GUI. Can't they do a OS X Conference???

    Dirk

  3. yay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ièm sure all those Eurotrash BSD using fags will love this. I bet there will be lots of this going on.

  4. Troubled times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    There s no escaping the reality that FreeBSD is a failure. So why now? Why did *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?

    The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.