Posted by
timothy
on from the better-stuff-dammit dept.
LiquidPC writes: "OSNews is running an article describing CVSup, mounting, ports, and the FreeBSD init system; focused primarily towards new users to FreeBSD."
FreeBSD Configuration
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NWT
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· Score: 4, Informative
So you've taken the first step and installed FreeBSD Yes! The article is really well written and couvers the various topics how to install/update and configure software. It's not really in-depth but it's a good mixture of descripiton and examples. I've been searching for an article like this for a long time and this one is really good as it explains cleary what you do.
-- Life sucks.
Re:FreeBSD Configuration
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Pierre
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· Score: 5, Interesting
This is a great article if you've just installed FreeBSD and are trying to get your feet wet, but I've been searching for an artical on what to do next.
So by default the CDROM is root only. What is the best way to change that?
CVSup and you have the latest edition of the source. For the base system that is great just make buildworld then make installworld
What about the apps I've added. What is the best way to keep those current? Does portupgrade recompile the app everytime?
After cvsup I used to do a
cd/var/db/pkg portupgrade *
and just leave for a day or so... Can I just upgrade the binaries somehow instead of recompiling?
Maybe it'll be a series of articles!
Re:FreeBSD Configuration
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taion
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· Score: 5, Informative
Regarding portupgrade, there's no need to run it from/var/db/pkg, and it's suggested that you simply run portupgrade -ra to update everything.
This recompiles and reinstalls all ports for which the installed version is lower than that in the ports library.
You can also specify to portupgrade that it should only use packages, as well as various other options (man portupgrade for a more detailed account).
It's recommended, however, that you install and upgrade ports from source. With a properly configured/etc/make.conf, the code will be optimized specifically for your system and thus run faster, and the ports from CVS tend to be more up-to-date than corresponding packages.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification - the action or habit of judging something to be worthless
Re:FreeBSD Configuration
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
Recompiling gnome for a comment change doesn't seem like a good idea. Is there a central computer with the latest packages?
Re:FreeBSD Configuration
by
taion
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· Score: 5, Informative
pkg_add -r <port name> will install the latest version of the package of the specified port, if one is available.
In addition, portupgrade only recompiles packages that have a version change, and the ports in the ports library compile off of released versions of the source (i.e. version x.y,z_w), not from the CVS repositories --- if the only difference between a new release of some hideously large port (X or Mozilla, for instance; GNOME is actually a meta-port, or a collection of ports, none of which take particularly long to build, really) and the older release is a comment change, well... blame the developers, not the porters (:
In addition, especially for larger ports, most minor changes to the port (such as changing the locations of distribution files and whatnot) do not affect the PORTREVISION, so they will not be recompiled either.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification - the action or habit of judging something to be worthless
Clarus, the Apple Dog-Cow
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
It was a balmy night in August, 1983, that Jobs held yet another beach party, this one with a special theme: who could come up with a mascot for the Mac development team? Of course the Apple II team was there and tensions, as always, were high. That didn't deter the Mac team from bringing their "pet," Clara, a cow they'd been raising on the Apple campus since birth.
Clara was birthed by the Mac team when they'd held a party on the Apple campus and had hired a bull-breeder as entertainment. All night long, the bull-breeder studded Hercules, his prize bull, with an assortment of cows. As the festivities continued on throughout the night, a strange moaning was coming from one of the trailers. One of the cows he'd brought with him was, unbeknownst to the bull-breeder, pregnant! The Mac development team, being the resourceful hackers they were, helped give birth to the calf, the mother losing its life in the process. The bull-breeder was so taken by the Mac dev team's efforts he let them keep the cow, which they named Clara.
Now, at the August 1983 beach party, the Mac team lobbied for Jobs to adopt Clara as the development mascot of the Macintosh. The Apple II team, spurned and bitter because of dwindling sales and neglect at the hand of Jobs, had brought their own mascot-- Cletus, a vicious Rotweiler they'd bought from a ruddy-faced streetman in the ghetto of Cupertino for $25. Cletus was a frothing, flea-and-mange ridden terror that barked at the least provocation. The Apple II team fed it raw goat meat and corrupted 5.25 floppies to make it mean. They also kicked it and made sure its chain was too tight at all time. Here at the party was their chance for revenge at Jobs and his favorite Mac development team.
As the night wore on, both the Apple II and Mac teams got drunker and drunker before Jobs called for a company vote on the mascot. What met the company's faces was something none of them could have imagined, however.
In their drunken, stoned stupor, the embittered Apple II team had snuck into Clara's trailer and cut the rear end of off Clara! Drugging her with ether to staunch her cries, they had used an electic chainsaw and cut her back legs and rectum cleanly off and taken them to the bonfire to cook and eat. They'd even fed some to the drunk Mac dev team! After they'd done this they forced their Cletus the foaming Rotweiler into the gaping hole in Clara's rear end. Eating away at his first real meal in months, Cletus became lodged in Clara's colon and couldn't break free. So when the Mac dev team opened Clara's trailer and led their pet down the ramp, they were met with a bloody, gut-strewn mess and a weird, unnatural animal call of "moof!"
The entire company was sickened by this and soon the sand was dotted with puddles of vomit. Cries of "moof, moof!" filled the air as the joined dog-cow trundled terribly along the beach, seizuring with each step, vomiting an icky mass of hair and blood, with a glazed look in its cow eyes. With a final shudder, the dog-cow fell and died, and the party-goers surrounded the putrid mess of bovine/canine flesh. Of course it didn't take long for the Mac dev team to discover the Apple II team's treachery and a bloody brawl ensued over the death of Clara. By the end of the night, the cow, the dog, and the Apple II team were simple piles of broken, bloody bones.
In light of the events that night, Jobs had no other choice to commemorate the tragic events that had unfurled and therefore made Apple's development mascot the dog-cow, "Clarus," a merging of the two animals names-- Cletus and Clara.
And that, for those who didn't know, is the origin of Clarus the dog-cow. Every time you click on a Mac OS easter-egg that utters "moof!" you can look back to the terrible events that August, 1983 night at the Apple beach party that brought you the Clarus, the dog-cow.
BeOS 5.0.4!?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
It was a balmy night in August, 1983, that Jobs held yet another beach party, this one with a special theme: who could come up with a mascot for the Mac development team? Of course the Apple II team was there and tensions, as always, were high. That didn't deter the Mac team from bringing their "pet," Clara, a cow they'd been raising on the Apple campus since birth.
Clara was birthed by the Mac team when they'd held a party on the Apple campus and had hired a bull-breeder as entertainment. All night long, the bull-breeder studded Hercules, his prize bull, with an assortment of cows. As the festivities continued on throughout the night, a strange moaning was coming from one of the trailers. One of the cows he'd brought with him was, unbeknownst to the bull-breeder, pregnant! The Mac development team, being the resourceful hackers they were, helped give birth to the calf, the mother losing its life in the process. The bull-breeder was so taken by the Mac dev team's efforts he let them keep the cow, which they named Clara.
Now, at the August 1983 beach party, the Mac team lobbied for Jobs to adopt Clara as the development mascot of the Macintosh. The Apple II team, spurned and bitter because of dwindling sales and neglect at the hand of Jobs, had brought their own mascot-- Cletus, a vicious Rotweiler they'd bought from a ruddy-faced streetman in the ghetto of Cupertino for $25. Cletus was a frothing, flea-and-mange ridden terror that barked at the least provocation. The Apple II team fed it raw goat meat and corrupted 5.25 floppies to make it mean. They also kicked it and made sure its chain was too tight at all time. Here at the party was their chance for revenge at Jobs and his favorite Mac development team.
As the night wore on, both the Apple II and Mac teams got drunker and drunker before Jobs called for a company vote on the mascot. What met the company's faces was something none of them could have imagined, however.
In their drunken, stoned stupor, the embittered Apple II team had snuck into Clara's trailer and cut the rear end of off Clara! Drugging her with ether to staunch her cries, they had used an electic chainsaw and cut her back legs and rectum cleanly off and taken them to the bonfire to cook and eat. They'd even fed some to the drunk Mac dev team! After they'd done this they forced their Cletus the foaming Rotweiler into the gaping hole in Clara's rear end. Eating away at his first real meal in months, Cletus became lodged in Clara's colon and couldn't break free. So when the Mac dev team opened Clara's trailer and led their pet down the ramp, they were met with a bloody, gut-strewn mess and a weird, unnatural animal call of "moof!"
The entire company was sickened by this and soon the sand was dotted with puddles of vomit. Cries of "moof, moof!" filled the air as the joined dog-cow trundled terribly along the beach, seizuring with each step, vomiting an icky mass of hair and blood, with a glazed look in its cow eyes. With a final shudder, the dog-cow fell and died, and the party-goers surrounded the putrid mess of bovine/canine flesh. Of course it didn't take long for the Mac dev team to discover the Apple II team's treachery and a bloody brawl ensued over the death of Clara. By the end of the night, the cow, the dog, and the Apple II team were simple piles of broken, bloody bones.
In light of the events that night, Jobs had no other choice to commemorate the tragic events that had unfurled and therefore made Apple's development mascot the dog-cow, "Clarus," a merging of the two animals names-- Cletus and Clara.
And that, for those who didn't know, is the origin of Clarus the dog-cow. Every time you click on a Mac OS easter-egg that utters "moof!" you can look back to the terrible events that August, 1983 night at the Apple beach party that brought you the Clarus, the dog-cow.
This is a very nice article
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
that is very useful for a small group of people, but all in all, it's pointless as a front page story. What are the editors doing with all of their time if they cannot find better articles than this to post?
Re:This is a very nice article
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
yeah yeah... whatever. If your site was better, we'd be reading that. And if either of us a good use of time, this thread wouldn't be here.
Besides, it's not a front page story, unless your at bsd.slashdot or you selected to "Collapse Sections". Even then, it's still not really the "front page".
Now go away.
*BSD is dying
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
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 mor 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:
*BSDis dead
Re:*BSD is dying
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Funny
BSD may be dead, but that's not stopping it from rocking at its own wake!
Re:*BSD is dying
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
Jeese.. the same old lame trolls. Can't you guys at least change part of it anymore, or worse yet, come up with something FUNNY or CLEVER?
I guess that's just too much to ask. The trolls here have really gone downhill.
Re:*BSD is dying
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
why don't you shut your fucking face?
But does it have a vagina?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
It is now official - HighTImes has confirmed: *BSD is for stoners.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently HighTImes confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 100 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest MadMagazine 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 [microsoft.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You needn't be Wavy Gravy 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 3% 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 for stoners.
Fact: Slashdot is an abomination...
Ports diffs
by
more+fool+you
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· Score: 2, Insightful
When downloading the source files it would be really sweet to just download diffs of the packages, esp. the larger ones (mozilla, XFree86 etc), just like what is done with the kernel source.
Since the FreeBSD project does not maintain the CVS trees of the ports (if they are even in CVS), this would be a little hard.
What the project does do is maintain the FreeBSD specific diffs so you can just use the original source instead of a custom FreeBSD one.
For selected programs (ie the ones in the contrib tree) the project does keep the tree so you can just get the diffs.
BWP
Re:Ports diffs
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
Since you are using CVS with CVSup, diff is really not necessary, it's more automatic, even. You only get the deltas that have changed since you last updated the CVS tree. In that way, it's just like rsync. Sure, having a diff would be nice for modifying a large ammount of machines, but you could always create a local CVS mirror and in that way save the external bandwidth. CVS is really an elegant solutin, what with the compresstion and auto diffing.
BSD is dead
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
It stinks like a dead fish.
When are you guys going to grow up and move on?
Losers.
Re:BSD is dead
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
Actually, there's a surprising number of *BSD servers being used in the appalachian hills. I was surprised when I looked at the numbers there; but see for yourself.
*Yawn*. This "article" would make a great introduction...to a real article. For instance, here's a link to an article which goes in depth into the BSD rc system.
21 comments
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Flamebait
*BSD has just reached previously unattainable levels of popularity.
Lonesome road for *BSD
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
Even once you get past the fact the *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 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. The funeral bell is tolling for *BSD. Bow your head. The parade's
gone by - *BSD is dying.
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Fr0st p1st
Penis?
Vagina?
or
Anus?
YOU DECIDE!
OMG BIG PENIS ATE MY SOUP
So you've taken the first step and installed FreeBSD
Yes! The article is really well written and couvers the various topics how to install/update and configure software. It's not really in-depth but it's a good mixture of descripiton and examples. I've been searching for an article like this for a long time and this one is really good as it explains cleary what you do.
Life sucks.
It's a well known fact that Apple, since its inception, has been a haven for "free thinkers" and "progressive thought," heralded by none other than famous acid-tripping Steve Jobs and his hippy buddies from California. It was on one of the famous beach parties, notorious for getting out of hand, that Clarus was born.
It was a balmy night in August, 1983, that Jobs held yet another beach party, this one with a special theme: who could come up with a mascot for the Mac development team? Of course the Apple II team was there and tensions, as always, were high. That didn't deter the Mac team from bringing their "pet," Clara, a cow they'd been raising on the Apple campus since birth.
Clara was birthed by the Mac team when they'd held a party on the Apple campus and had hired a bull-breeder as entertainment. All night long, the bull-breeder studded Hercules, his prize bull, with an assortment of cows. As the festivities continued on throughout the night, a strange moaning was coming from one of the trailers. One of the cows he'd brought with him was, unbeknownst to the bull-breeder, pregnant! The Mac development team, being the resourceful hackers they were, helped give birth to the calf, the mother losing its life in the process. The bull-breeder was so taken by the Mac dev team's efforts he let them keep the cow, which they named Clara.
Now, at the August 1983 beach party, the Mac team lobbied for Jobs to adopt Clara as the development mascot of the Macintosh. The Apple II team, spurned and bitter because of dwindling sales and neglect at the hand of Jobs, had brought their own mascot-- Cletus, a vicious Rotweiler they'd bought from a ruddy-faced streetman in the ghetto of Cupertino for $25. Cletus was a frothing, flea-and-mange ridden terror that barked at the least provocation. The Apple II team fed it raw goat meat and corrupted 5.25 floppies to make it mean. They also kicked it and made sure its chain was too tight at all time. Here at the party was their chance for revenge at Jobs and his favorite Mac development team.
As the night wore on, both the Apple II and Mac teams got drunker and drunker before Jobs called for a company vote on the mascot. What met the company's faces was something none of them could have imagined, however.
In their drunken, stoned stupor, the embittered Apple II team had snuck into Clara's trailer and cut the rear end of off Clara! Drugging her with ether to staunch her cries, they had used an electic chainsaw and cut her back legs and rectum cleanly off and taken them to the bonfire to cook and eat. They'd even fed some to the drunk Mac dev team! After they'd done this they forced their Cletus the foaming Rotweiler into the gaping hole in Clara's rear end. Eating away at his first real meal in months, Cletus became lodged in Clara's colon and couldn't break free. So when the Mac dev team opened Clara's trailer and led their pet down the ramp, they were met with a bloody, gut-strewn mess and a weird, unnatural animal call of "moof!"
The entire company was sickened by this and soon the sand was dotted with puddles of vomit. Cries of "moof, moof!" filled the air as the joined dog-cow trundled terribly along the beach, seizuring with each step, vomiting an icky mass of hair and blood, with a glazed look in its cow eyes. With a final shudder, the dog-cow fell and died, and the party-goers surrounded the putrid mess of bovine/canine flesh. Of course it didn't take long for the Mac dev team to discover the Apple II team's treachery and a bloody brawl ensued over the death of Clara. By the end of the night, the cow, the dog, and the Apple II team were simple piles of broken, bloody bones.
In light of the events that night, Jobs had no other choice to commemorate the tragic events that had unfurled and therefore made Apple's development mascot the dog-cow, "Clarus," a merging of the two animals names-- Cletus and Clara.
And that, for those who didn't know, is the origin of Clarus the dog-cow. Every time you click on a Mac OS easter-egg that utters "moof!" you can look back to the terrible events that August, 1983 night at the Apple beach party that brought you the Clarus, the dog-cow.
It's a well known fact that Apple, since its inception, has been a haven for "free thinkers" and "progressive thought," heralded by none other than famous acid-tripping Steve Jobs and his hippy buddies from California. It was on one of the famous beach parties, notorious for getting out of hand, that Clarus was born.
It was a balmy night in August, 1983, that Jobs held yet another beach party, this one with a special theme: who could come up with a mascot for the Mac development team? Of course the Apple II team was there and tensions, as always, were high. That didn't deter the Mac team from bringing their "pet," Clara, a cow they'd been raising on the Apple campus since birth.
Clara was birthed by the Mac team when they'd held a party on the Apple campus and had hired a bull-breeder as entertainment. All night long, the bull-breeder studded Hercules, his prize bull, with an assortment of cows. As the festivities continued on throughout the night, a strange moaning was coming from one of the trailers. One of the cows he'd brought with him was, unbeknownst to the bull-breeder, pregnant! The Mac development team, being the resourceful hackers they were, helped give birth to the calf, the mother losing its life in the process. The bull-breeder was so taken by the Mac dev team's efforts he let them keep the cow, which they named Clara.
Now, at the August 1983 beach party, the Mac team lobbied for Jobs to adopt Clara as the development mascot of the Macintosh. The Apple II team, spurned and bitter because of dwindling sales and neglect at the hand of Jobs, had brought their own mascot-- Cletus, a vicious Rotweiler they'd bought from a ruddy-faced streetman in the ghetto of Cupertino for $25. Cletus was a frothing, flea-and-mange ridden terror that barked at the least provocation. The Apple II team fed it raw goat meat and corrupted 5.25 floppies to make it mean. They also kicked it and made sure its chain was too tight at all time. Here at the party was their chance for revenge at Jobs and his favorite Mac development team.
As the night wore on, both the Apple II and Mac teams got drunker and drunker before Jobs called for a company vote on the mascot. What met the company's faces was something none of them could have imagined, however.
In their drunken, stoned stupor, the embittered Apple II team had snuck into Clara's trailer and cut the rear end of off Clara! Drugging her with ether to staunch her cries, they had used an electic chainsaw and cut her back legs and rectum cleanly off and taken them to the bonfire to cook and eat. They'd even fed some to the drunk Mac dev team! After they'd done this they forced their Cletus the foaming Rotweiler into the gaping hole in Clara's rear end. Eating away at his first real meal in months, Cletus became lodged in Clara's colon and couldn't break free. So when the Mac dev team opened Clara's trailer and led their pet down the ramp, they were met with a bloody, gut-strewn mess and a weird, unnatural animal call of "moof!"
The entire company was sickened by this and soon the sand was dotted with puddles of vomit. Cries of "moof, moof!" filled the air as the joined dog-cow trundled terribly along the beach, seizuring with each step, vomiting an icky mass of hair and blood, with a glazed look in its cow eyes. With a final shudder, the dog-cow fell and died, and the party-goers surrounded the putrid mess of bovine/canine flesh. Of course it didn't take long for the Mac dev team to discover the Apple II team's treachery and a bloody brawl ensued over the death of Clara. By the end of the night, the cow, the dog, and the Apple II team were simple piles of broken, bloody bones.
In light of the events that night, Jobs had no other choice to commemorate the tragic events that had unfurled and therefore made Apple's development mascot the dog-cow, "Clarus," a merging of the two animals names-- Cletus and Clara.
And that, for those who didn't know, is the origin of Clarus the dog-cow. Every time you click on a Mac OS easter-egg that utters "moof!" you can look back to the terrible events that August, 1983 night at the Apple beach party that brought you the Clarus, the dog-cow.
that is very useful for a small group of people, but all in all, it's pointless as a front page story. What are the editors doing with all of their time if they cannot find better articles than this to post?
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 mor 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: *BSDis dead
It is now official - HighTImes has confirmed: *BSD is for stoners.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently HighTImes confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 100 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest MadMagazine 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 [microsoft.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You needn't be Wavy Gravy 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 3% 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 for stoners.
Fact: Slashdot is an abomination...
When downloading the source files it would be really sweet to just download diffs of the packages, esp. the larger ones (mozilla, XFree86 etc), just like what is done with the kernel source.
When are you guys going to grow up and move on?
Losers.
*Yawn*. This "article" would make a great introduction...to a real article.
For instance, here's a link to an article which goes in depth into the BSD rc system.
*BSD has just reached previously unattainable levels of popularity.
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. The funeral bell is tolling for *BSD. Bow your head. The parade's gone by - *BSD is dying.