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Alcachofo writes "The FreeBSD Foundation needs a logo. If you want to help, check out the details here. Start drawing, and send your entries to them."
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As regular Slashdot posters often refuse to grow up, they find their acne-ridden, jobless selves staring blankly at the television set watching Cartoon Network all day. And not just for a chance to see the Powerpuff Girls episode where they meet their own (heavily endowed) selves from the future either.
To this end, I would like to draw the Slashdot community to what could be Cartoon Network's FINEST parody. The day Richard Stallman appeared on Dexter's Laboratory.
There was an episode wherein Dexter was preparing for yet another test, and got onto the Schoolbus, clutching his "lucky pencil". Sitting down next to another geek we hadn't seen before, (clearly a reference to Linus Torvalds), the bus set off.
In the course of the bus journey, Dexter ends up losing his pencil, which rolls to the back of the bus. This area is considered 'off-limits' by the schoolkids on the bus, and they have developed a collection of myths related to it.
After having these stories related to him, Dexter decides that there is no way he is going to leave his pencil behind (a metaphor of his creativity and scientific genius) and proceeds into the dark recesses of the bus.
After some exploring, Dexter happens upon a nightmarish environment of shadows and imperceptible fear, as a giant figure looms above him, who then reveals himself to be a fat, bearded hippy.
The backstory for this character explains that he was a lazy child who fell asleep on the bus, with his hair stuck to some chewing gum. Unable to free himself from the bonds forged from his own laziness, this man-child grew up to be an unkempt scruffy figure, obese and obscured by facial hair. It is clear who this portly Peter Pan-esque figure represents. RMS in shape and thought.
But what about deed? It turns out that this character had kept himself alive over the 20 or so years he had been trapped in the back of the bus by growing his toenails long, so that he may use them as a claw to grab other children's food and discarded items. Is this not how the GNU movement works, ensaring other people's work in order to sustain the beast at the centre?
In a symbolic gesture, Dexter retrieves his pencil from the child-like hippy by, of all things, giving him a haircut. This is clearly an example of how Free Software programmers can find gainful employment by taking some consideration over their appearence.
Although one should always say goodbye to childish things, it is good to know that even the simplest cartoons have lessons to offer.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Why the fuck isn't this on the front page?
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
Fame and glory? That's lame. They should give away free copies of their OS. Now THAT would be a prize!
do not read this line twice.
Gee, "All entries become the property of the FreeBSD Foundation." That sure sounds like a sweet open-source kind of deal. You send them a picture, for their product, and they get to own it whether they use it or not!
Excessive legalisms are a bane of existence, but so are stupid ones. I don't know the enforceability of this joke of a contest rule, since generally a contract is only valid if both parties get something of value in the deal.
Would programmers put up with such a noxious clause regarding their software submissions to FreeBSD?
evanchik.net
Actually, that is not as offensive as it looks.
FreeBSD has already been in bed with half of dozen
corporations, and that makes Daemon quite a gigolo.
Should be ~/hand, unless hand is the top level of the ~, which I would hope it's not. I would imagine the full path would look more like /home/liquidsin/hand. Don't forget to:
/dev/null ~/bladder, I guess if you had Expensive Surgery, you could.
rm -rf ~/bladder after about each fifth iteration of your mv command.
Too bad you can't ln -s
I like music
that FreeBSD logo is cute, but it must've put alot of PHBs off giving permision to have the OS installed on their company's computers.
Maybe they could just steel the Darwin logo, but like, umm, make it metal to show security..yea..that's it.
It would perfectly symbolise the *BSD as well as the dying.
The new BSD logo should be something that accurately represents why unix is outdated and ridden with gaping security holes.
I suggest this.
its called a colonoscopy, junior. get with the program, mother fucker.
/* s */
Wrong, it's an iliostomy. A Colonoscopy is is where they stick a fibre up your ass to take a peek. A Colostomy is where you poop in a bag, iliostomy is where you piss in a bag.
Sorry, pop, I'm with the program.
I like music
Well, back in the day, we didn't have mini-cameras to ram up our asses. any procedure dealing with the ass was an iliostomy.
Go back to the cubicle, junior
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 dsperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shround over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.