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Jordan Hubbard Resigns from FreeBSD Core

Posted by timothy on from the well-deserved dept.

SteelX was one of many readers to cite this story in the Daily Daemon News which reports that "Jordan Hubbard is resigning from the FreeBSD core. Jordan is a founding member of the FreeBSD project." Note: According to this email, Hubbard is definitely not quitting FreeBSD; he's just changing the nature of his involvement with it.

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  1. Sorry to see him go... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hubbard has done a lot to make FreeBSD exist in the
    form he does today. The rest of the core team
    is really strong, but clearly his involvement
    will be missed. An interesting question for the
    Linux side of things will be how long some of their
    mainstays (Torvalds, Cox, et al) will hang in.
    Everyone needs a change of direction sometime--
    no one expects these people to want to do the same
    thing for the rest of their lives, and it would
    be unrealistic to do so.

  2. Re:Really. Thanks jkh. by siliconinc.net · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Over the last few years of contracts and ISP migrations, Ive built somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 fbsd machines. I still have maintenance retainers on a lot of them, and spend less time working on them than I do the handful of windows and redhat machines I have to deal with now. Its quite possibly the most stable OS (with the possible exception of IRIX) Ive ever dealt with. Big thanks for jkh for making it all possible, and saving me from a few late night support calls.

    Anyone know how we could send jkh a nice case of beer and a pizza in return for the great work?