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FreeBSD Developers' Want List
mbadolato writes "FreeBSD.org has set up a donations page with a list of items that need, in order to further development efforts. Mind you, this is a normal needs list in terms of equipment, and not a want list such as the crew in Sneakers provided to the government... ;-) From the page: 'This page lists various developer hardware needs. If you are interested in supporting the FreeBSD Project, you might consider donating some piece of hardware on this list to the Project. We provide the FreeBSD username of the developer who needs a resource, the country they are in (for shipping purposes), the equipment they desire, and the use to which that equipment will be put. For information on tax deductions and process, please see the information on the main FreeBSD Donation Liason office page. If you would like to donate something on this list, please contact donations@FreeBSD.org.' And the list follows. Please visit the page, look at the list, and if you have any of the needed items that you can spare, please donate it to help the development effor along!"
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this is one way to feed the BSD is dying trolls....
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Christian Troll community when recently IDC confirmed that Christian Troll accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all slashdot trolls. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Christian Trolls have lost more biting share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Christian Trolls are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Goatse comprehensive trolling test.
You don't need to be Fred Phelps to predict Christian Trolls's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Christian Trolls faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Christian Trolls because Christian Trolls are dying. Things are looking very bad for Christian Trolls. As many of us are already aware, Christian Trolls continues to lose biting share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Bible_Study_Guys is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core trollers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
FirstPOST leader AnonymousCoward states that there are 7000 users of FirstPOST. How many users of KDEvsGnome are there? Let's see. The number of FirstPOST versus KDEvsGnome posts on Slashdot is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 KDEvsGnome users. BSD/Is/Dying posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of KDEvsGnome posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/Is/Dying. A recent article put Bible_Study_Guys at about 80 percent of the Christian Troll market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Bible_Study_Guys users. This is consistent with the number of Bible_Study_Guys Slashdot posts.
Due to the troubles of slash.geekizoid, abysmal sales and so on, Bible_Study_Guys went out of business and was taken over by Adequacy.Org who sell another troubled Troll. Now Adequacy.Org is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Christian Trolls have steadily declined in biting share. Christian Trolls are very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Christian Trolls is to survive at all it will be among Trolling hobbyist dabblers. Christian Trolls continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Christian Trolls are dead.
Fact: Christian Trolls are dead