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A dæmon writes "According to Daily Daemon News and The FreeBSD Diary, NetBSD, FreeBSD and GNU/OpenBSD are to be merged.
Read the full story here." This is a good thing since one of the two BSDs clearly sucked, and the other was clearly superior.
ha ha ha ha ha ha
what more can be said?
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Happy April Fools day!
http://almostsmart.com
Why don't you post another FUNNY story about THAT EVIL BIT !!!!!!!!!!!
IT'S GODDAMN HIGH-LARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!
CmdrTaco is such an idiot.
I think that that BSD is the best.
How about you?
IMarv
Trusting software vendors is no smarter than trus
HEHEH :)
That's too fsking funny! ;)
Good one Taco.
Yeah, go on, admit it...you fell for that one
No Comment.
From this day forward... I will never listen to a single word CmdrTaco says or posts.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
/. becomes a meta-repository (or should that be suppository) for all other 4/1 spoofs on the web...
Evil ZEN Scientist
I wish this would happen... but nooooo, /. has to go and get my hopes up, then I finally remember "Oh yeah! It's April 1st!" and I go slinking back to my bed...
/.
Whatever
April Fools Day ends at noon. OR so I'd always been told. This story posted at 11:59 so I guess it'll be OK.
This is a good thing since one of the two BSDs clearly sucked, and the other was clearly superior.
i so wish this were posted on some other day. can you imagine the comments?
This year has been worse than most, so many of the stories are soooooo....obviously fake.....
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
And the superior one no doubt implemented RFC 3514
This can only be a good thing, for keeping the inferior BSD in compliance with the newest standards...
"This is Zombo Com, and welcome to you who have come to Zombo Com" - www.zombo.com
You heard it here first.
its really important, and i dont understand why slashdot isnt posting it.
read the whitepaper here
i'm going to kee this up until slashdot posts about the evil bit.
... hi bingo
"This is a good thing since one of the two BSDs clearly sucked, and the other was clearly superior." And yet there are three BSDs mentioned... Hmm...maybe he honestly thought he only posted the evil bit story once!
Pass me some of whatever shit your smoking, I definitely want some...
RoxyGuy
will it support the new IPv4 "Evil Bit" ?
Sometimes Slashdot is broken and the page contains no [Parent] or [Reply to This] buttons! Fix this! Or rather, don't break Slashdot when it's working just fine.
The biggest controversy seems to be the selection of a new logo, which has stirred much debate within the new FretBSD community. While the BSD Daemon will remain, it's just a matter of changing his sneakers. Kris Kennaway, ex-FreeBSD Ports Cluster administrator, said : "We need to change those sneakers. Why do you think they're green anyway? Purple is a much superior color".
I wonder if paid subscribes don't have to put up with the April 1 jokes... might be worth it really.
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
aren't they all dead anyway?
is the quote in the second paragraph: ""Now that us old geezers are out of the way, the BSD projects can reunify like they should have done years ago" said Jordan Hubbard, a long time player involved in FreeBSD from the start, but now moved onto other projects. "I understand that they're going to be implementing a new installer and packaging system, so I'm content.""
Jeez, they could have kept the charade up for more than one paragraph if they really wanted to get people going.
This is a good thing since one of the two BSDs clearly sucked, and the other was clearly superior.
What, OS X?
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
... with a joint burial! :-)
The scary things is, that this is a damn good idea... it'd save those of us who don't give a damn a whole lot of headaches from listening to the people who do...
The last couple of years, April 1st always turned into a churn of nonsensical stories, most of them very obviously april fool jokes.
;)
Don't overdo it like this! It's just plain boring and unfunny. Slide in a weirdo little story, which only turns out to be obvious nonsense if you look at it again. That Gentoo bit was a nice one
But now April 1st has come (and over here, gone), and you can stop now.
Please?
Free PC version of ChipWits at http://www.breueronline.de/klaus/chipwits/
And both of them are dying.
I just couldn't resist.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
One BSD to rule them all, /. spoof bind them...
One BSD to find them,
One BSD to bring them all,
And in a really bad
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
-Shadow
Slashdot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H*Bsd is DUPING^H^H^H^H^H DYING.......yeah
mmmm www.slashdupe.com
However, ANOTHER SITE isnt doing so badly!
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
OK, it's an obvious April 1st troll, but at least it is an improvement over those "BSD is dying" trollls...
*** Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent 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 fittingly 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. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
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 dilettante 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 dying
I think the joke this year is that, in a post-modern ironic twist, there are not any april fools (except the bad attempts at humour on /.), except on The Onion which does them all year round (i mean, techincally The Onion should have some true stories for a change - that'd be funny).
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
[This post is in the public domain (copyright-free) unless otherwise stated]
The Kurdish Shiites and the Iraqi Suni have agreed on a unified government controlled via a US Dictator
Damnit! I lost a ten dollar bet that the next story would be a dupe.
the United Nations delegates determined that the BSDs must unite
The UN debate was quite interesting. France vetoed the merger but were over-rulled by the US and the UK, while Canada sat on the sidelines...
That's great news, now they can be dying as a team rather than divisive little groups.
Yes, I know it's a joke
Trolling is a art,
United States surrenders to Iraq!
If they don't include the IPv4 header changes all is lost. And surely BSD will die.
Where's the obligatory Windows and Linux to merge post? This just in: Linus Torvalds has agreed to be Bill Gates' lap dog for an undisclosed sum. It has been rumored that he'll get to share the family bed..
So long, and thanks for all the Phish
Sun to drop proprietary line of systems and go paste name on chinese made PC's, to compete with Dell and HP/Compaq
Windows Longhorn to merge with Linux, Gates finally concedes Open Source the answer to Microsoft's security nightmares.
AOL/TW turns a profit Q1 2003
NBC admits acted hastily in Arnett firing, network respects candor and integrity over DoD relations.
Director Peter Jackson, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times, this morning, "Lord of the Rings:Return of the King will actually be a pretty weak effort, it was just too hard to follow the books acurately and make each into a 3 hour film. We left off a good chunk of The Two Towers and I had no idea how I was going to include that, along with the third book in the next film, so to cut things short, Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with AR-15's and has Sauron choke on a piece of pretzel. I can't wait to get rid of this stuff and start working on King Kong."
Unlimited Karma points to return to Slashdot. Hiding them and capping at 50 a terrible mistake, says source.
IPv4 to include Evil Bit
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
now you can leave off the * and just say BSD is dying
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god." - Thomas Jefferson
[ed. note: in the following text, former FreeBSD developer Mike Smith gives his reasons for abandoning FreeBSD]
When I stood for election to the FreeBSD core team nearly two years ago, many of you will recall that it was after a long series of debates during which I maintained that too much organisation, too many rules and too much formality would be a bad thing for the project.
Today, as I read the latest discussions on the future of the FreeBSD project, I see the same problem; a few new faces and many of the old going over the same tired arguments and suggesting variations on the same worthless schemes. Frankly I'm sick of it.
FreeBSD used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.
It's not anymore. It's about bylaws and committees and reports and milestones, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can rant the longest or shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a bloc in order to legitimise doing what they think is best. Individuals notwithstanding, the project as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics.
So I'm leaving core. I don't want to feel like I should be "doing something" about a project that has lost interest in having something done for it. I don't have the energy to fight what has clearly become a losing battle; I have a life to live and a job to keep, and I won't achieve any of the goals I personally consider worthwhile if I remain obligated to care for the project.
Discussion
I'm sure that I've offended some people already; I'm sure that by the time I'm done here, I'll have offended more. If you feel a need to play to the crowd in your replies rather than make a sincere effort to address the problems I'm discussing here, please do us the courtesy of playing your politics openly.
From a technical perspective, the project faces a set of challenges that significantly outstrips our ability to deliver. Some of the resources that we need to address these challenges are tied up in the fruitless metadiscussions that have raged since we made the mistake of electing officers. Others have left in disgust, or been driven out by the culture of abuse and distraction that has grown up since then. More may well remain available to recruitment, but while the project is busy infighting our chances for successful outreach are sorely diminished.
There's no simple solution to this. For the project to move forward, one or the other of the warring philosophies must win out; either the project returns to its laid-back roots and gets on with the work, or it transforms into a super-organised engineering project and executes a brilliant plan to deliver what, ultimately, we all know we want.
Whatever path is chosen, whatever balance is struck, the choosing and the striking are the important parts. The current indecision and endless conflict are incompatible with any sort of progress.
Trying to dissect the above is far beyond the scope of any parting shot, no matter how distended. All I can really ask of you all is to let go of the minutiae for a moment and take a look at the big picture. What is the ultimate goal here? How can we get there with as little overhead as possible? How would you like to be treated by your fellow travellers?
Shouts
To the Slashdot "BSD is dying" crowd - big deal. Death is part of the cycle; take a look at your soft, pallid bodies and consider that right this very moment, parts of you are dying. See? It's not so bad.
To the bulk of the FreeBSD committerbase and the developer community at large - keep your eyes on the real goals. It
I mean, the other 364 days a year wasn't enough? ;)
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Too much for an Aprils Fool. Next thing will be : OS/2 and NT codebase merged again :D
------- The last Sig. got fired.
I said it right here on slashdot; that taking away Matt Dillon's commit privs would lead to trouble!
-Chris
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AFG's...why to use the preview..grrr.
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
[This post is in the public domain (copyright-free) unless otherwise stated]
"According to Daily Daemon News and The FreeBSD Diary, NetBSD, FreeBSD and GNU/OpenBSD are to be merged."
I won't believe this until ; Netcraft confirms.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a mere fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent 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 fittingly 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. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
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 dilettante 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 dying
In way is a step forward because it will have a larger user base and a alrger testing pool, in a way it is a step backward because we are going to miss the liberty of choice and competion between BSD distributions. I certainlly would not like to have Redhat like BSD. This is one of the reasons I stayed with Slackware and started using FreeBSD.
http://ebgp.net/ccc/
I don't like their satanic icon. Who thought of this? What is it teaching the children? The children?! Who is thinking of the children!
I think there is enough video game violence in your precious PlayBox and X-Station without having to feed our youth satanic images when they wish to try a new OS.
Sincerely,
PMRC
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
...they'll merge the BSD's with the Evil Bit and create, The Mother Of All April Fool's Stories.
of moose distruction ???
FreeBSD: Think "Benevolent Politburo" without the chronic dyspepsia.
NetBSD: Think "Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune" without the impractical decision making process.
OpenBSD: Think "Titoist Market Socialism" without the clear break with Stalin.
OR
FreeBSD: Let's play with our ball as much as we want but the game has to be played our way.
NetBSD: Let's play with our ball on as many different playgrounds as we can.
OpenBSD: I'm taking my ball and playing in my yard. It's safer than the playground.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
FreeBSD will not be part of this merger, instead opting to merged with Open BeOS. Part of this merger will include changing ports to an RPM based system, to maintain compliance with RFC 3124's "Evil Bit". Several duplicate projects have sprung up in a rush to develop drivers for the iGrill.
Also RMS has decided that GNU shouldn't go in front of everything open source related.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
CmdrTaco better watch his back if Theo de Raadt finds out that you allowed a post of "GNU/OpenBSD" label, even though it happens to be the 1st of A, because is it one thing that Theo truly hates it's RMS, GNU and GPL/LGPL plus all the fucking zealots that come with it, of which RMS is just one.
Wouldn't that require a necromancer?
"5... 4... 3.. 1... OFFBLAST!"
The "reply" buttons keep being removed and turned back on?
It's a lame april fools joke if you ask me.
God these April Fools jokes just get more pointless each year.
CmdrTaco is such an idiot. Where have I heard this before. Oh no! This evil bit isn't part of an RFC: it's a new RFC-creating VIRUS!!! It's everywhere, appended to every sentance I complete! I knew somthing was suspicious about CmdrTaco's grammar... All his grammar was perfect; on April 1st! This RFC virus is spreading fast! ...completing all sentances, damn! College students will be passing english! Look at the poster's sentance for GOD's sake!
CmdrTaco is such an idiot.
There it is! - - - - /
A sentance limiter!
The RFC virus! NO!!! The trolls will be ruined! The *BSD is Dying troll will have more correct grammar than the preachers at a casket ceremony at netcraft; because it is confirmed...the *BSD IS DYING trolls are...dying!
I find it sad that nobody has posted a "*BSD is alive!" troll...
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
i only wish this were real... :p
that way I could have an Open, Free, and Internet-savvy BSD. OpenFreeNetBSD.
mmm... savviness...
That was so blatantly obvious it didn't merit a chuckle. Stop now kthx.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
This is an attempt by the beleaguered BSD community to consolidate, postponing BSD's inevitable death.
I think this is an excellent idea. Consolidation will reduce re-invention and focus developers. Other projects/programs I'd like to see consolidated:
MacOSX and YellowDog Linux
Linux and WheatoniX
bash and ksh
Gnome and KDE
KnomeDE and Enlightenment 1.0
Windows 2003 Server and BackOrifice
Metal Gear, Tomb Raider, and Tetris
GIMP and MSPaint
Slashdot and The Onion... oh, wait. Never mind.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
Sweet! One more story till RFC 3541 gets posted again!
BroccoliGod
if it wasn't april's fool i would say that's great news
Just check out the following post to the freebsd-current mailing list.
I L. patch
From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue Apr 1 05:47:31 2003
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 05:48:53 -0500 (EST)
From: "Matthew N. Dodd"
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: IFF_EVIL patch available.
Leveraging our new RFC3514 support I've implemented a new network
interface flag 'IFF_EVIL' which causes all IP packets crossing the
interface to have the IP_EVIL bit set.
ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/patches/IFF_EV
Enjoy.
I say its part of the april fools jokes.
Ok, Taco -- let some of the rest of your team post some Evil dups while there's still time left today!
Ahh, April 1 - the day Slashdot drags unsuspecting servers out into the sunlight, points thousands of browsers at them, and watches as they get hammered like baby seals....
That story took what, 30 seconds to crash 2 of those servers? You'd hope these guys could come up with something more original than PHP/mySQL error strings when their page generators choke and die... kudos to those whose servers managed to survive, even if they didn't bring up the right story.
I love vegetarians - some of my favorite foods are vegetarians.
Don't forget emacs and vi...
If BSD is dying, they'll only need one grave, right?
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
As I write this it is 14:24 EST, so that means that Anchorage (Alaska,USA) has not to got to mid-day yet. Nor has San Francisco for that matter. So until there are no 12 noons left on 1st April 2003, then April fools has still got some fight left.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
April Fools or Cold Day in Hell?
All that Open, Free, Darwin BSD stuff was really confusing!
This
BSD is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions! What next? Human sacrifices, dogs and cats living together? Mass hysteria!
... Thats it.
It's slashdotted, so here's what I picked up from the page. Hope it helps:
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"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent 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 fittingly 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. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
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 dilettante 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 dying
At the recent ITECD conference, the United Nations delegates
determined that the BSDs must unite in order to provide a single best
platform for use in third-world countries, and dispatched negotiators
to each of the project leads, resulting in the new "FretBSD Project."
The members of the FreeBSD and NetBSD teams have joined in
whole-heartedly, with both present and past members giving it their
blessing. "Now that us old geezers are out of the way, the BSD
projects can reunify like they should have done years ago" said Jordan
Hubbard, a long time player involved in FreeBSD from the start, but
now moved onto other projects.
Luke Mewburn, previous NetBSD core team member, said he was keen to
help with the merger: "FreeBSD was already using the NetBSD FTP
daemon, our rc.d system, and our Cardbus support. This was inevitable,
really."
Perry Metzger, ex-NetBSD developer with Wasabi Systems, said: "This is
what we've been waiting for! It'll give us access to more developers
and users! Could you please take the electrodes off now?"
Mr. Metzger will be doing his future FretBSD work from the lowest
level of the maximum-security United States prison camp in Guatanamo
Bay, with a 24x7 armed guard to ensure his safety.
Theo de Raadt could not be reached for comment. While Theo's home has
been surrounded, UN peacekeeper troops have yet to storm the building.
UN spokesmen insist that the siege is going according to plan,
however, and Theo is expected to be available for integration in the
new combined BSD at some date in late 2023. Of the two hundred
eighty-nine casualties suffered by the UN troops at this time, the
commanding officer insists that they were caused by a rampaging
Canadian moose. Daniel Hartmeier, previously of the OpenBSD Project,
insists that OpenBSD has no weapons of moose destruction.
Within a week, all mailing lists and Web servers for the legacy NetBSD
and FreeBSD projects will be terminated. The mailing list for the new
combined project will be hosted from the United Nations datacenter on
a Microsoft Exchange server. As UN monitors will be moderating the
mailing lists to prevent disagreements and divisive arguments before
they begin, this system is expected to be adequate for the load.
The biggest controversy seems to be the selection of a new logo, which
has stirred much debate within the new FretBSD community. While the
BSD Daemon will remain, it's just a matter of changing his sneakers.
Kris Kennaway, ex-FreeBSD Ports Cluster administrator, said : "We need
to change those sneakers. Why do you think they're green anyway?
Purple is a much superior color".
In a rather disturbing vein, Greg Lehey has disappeared. Rumours
continue to circulate that he has set up a rogue CVS and mail server
somewhere in Tasmania. Similar rumours surrounding the disappearance
of Christos Zoulas have not been substantiated, but we have been
unable to contact him.
Okay, maybe they're slashdotted, but a "1040" error on April 1st? (US income tax form 1040, due today.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I'm dripping with sweat and urine. You did this to me
- Erect Horsecock
Finally a funny April Fools joke.
CmdrTaco and Hemos have merged into a single Slashdot editor, in an effort to reduce duplicate posts.
Clearly, one of them was superior.
Hyuck, hyuck. Merry April 1. :-\
breaking news
In an unnattended news briefing, it was announced that Merged BSD 1.0 will be due out sometime early next October. It has been speculated that the long awaited compilation will be the downfall of Microsoft once and for all. Rumor has it that using a special new technology, dubbed the "evil bit", Merged BSD will enable its users to attain global conquest.
Unsettling disruptions have been coming up all over the community, and it appears that the logo will be changed from the friendly bsd demon, to the fierce and more appropriately menacing King-Kong. The release of the Merged BSD compilation will coincide with a recently announced remake of the classic movie, "King King Lives", due in October, as previously mentioned.
George Foreman has agreed to do promotional advertising for Merged BSD, and as tribute will be tossing in special recipies in with his new product the iGrill, such as the infamous kong-burgers.
More at 11:00
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One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has rised yet again, now up to more than 99 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has gained more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is very actively developed , as fittingly exemplified by gaining first place [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a very good future because *BSD is alive. Things are looking very good for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to gain market share.
FreeBSD is the most active of them all, having gained 93% of its core developers. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is alive.
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.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily gained in market share.
Fact: *BSD is alive
CmdrTaco's Dulpicate stories Merged
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An independant source confirmed today that the famous editor of Slashdot.org, Rod "CmdrTaco" Malda has got his act together and stated merging his dulpicate stories. Malda is quoted as saying "I'm not as think as you drunk I am" when asked how he could be so forgetful in his posting of duplicate stories.
Other internet sources also confirmed that bandwidth usage declined by 59% after the dupes were merged. This decline has been dubbed "The Reverse
I"m a MAC OS X USER I am outraged! Why cant' we BE ALLOWED to BE MERGING!?!?!?!?!
WE need too have some posts abou the EVIL BIT on apple.slashtdot.org to!!!!!!!!!!
WAIT UNTIL STEVEE JOBS HERES ABOUT THIS!!!! HE"S GOT A CAN OF BSD WHOOP ASS FOR QWHOEVER CAME UP WITH THIS PALN!!!
I"M SERIOUS MAD HEAR! GGGGRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!! can"T FOOL ME!
and that damn lameness filter tells ME NOT TO YELL
Hilarious! :-)
That April 1st seems to always be a slow day for real news.
This assumes that you don't find international war, Supreme Court hearings, and the like particularly interesting.
Did you hear about this RFC for an "evil" bit in the IPv4 headers?
Slashdot and Macslash to merge...
Come on, it was funny in the morning, but that shit's gettin' old now.
I'd hate to have to rewrite all my rule sets.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Award-winning stage and screen actor Michael Jeter, an "actor's actor" who was beloved by children as Sesame Street's The Other Mr. Noodle, died over the weekend in Los Angeles, his publicist said on Tuesday.
Jeter, who revealed in 1997 that he had contracted HIV and was a longtime supporter of AIDS charities, was found dead in his Hollywood Hills home on Sunday, his publicist said. The cause of his death has not been determined. Jeter was 50.
Really.
Aha! Here's an idea someone should've thought of years ago *g* - if you can play Infocom games and surf the Web in emacs, why can't someone clone vi in emacs LISP? LMAO
-uso.
No, I'm not kidding.
Dreams, dreams, don't doubt dreams, dreaming children's dreaming dreams. Sailor Moon SS
Move on nothing to see here.
This year has been worse than most, so many of the stories are soooooo....obviously fake.....
;-)
/. Oh, except Onion is actually funny sometimes.
you would think they might mix only a few fake ones in with the real stories, try to be sneaky. But then again, what they lack in quality, they make up for in quantity.
On another note: The quality of posting hasn't changed. If anything, there is LESS trolling and flamebaiting, which makes you think that if they did this every day, the overall quality of posts would go up
Its like Onion meets
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
Hey, who cares that my "FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE available" didn't get posted, becaused now we are having the same old BSD-is-dying crap.
:)
(For those interested: check your local ftp-mirror, it's not a joke
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer."
-- Henry Kissinger
...why didn't you submit a dozen or so more-clever hoaxes?
If you did, please post them here so we can see what CmdrTaco passed over to rerun his "Evil Bits" stories.
If your hoaxes are original, and superior in wit and imagination, you'll no-doubt get piles of Karma points and I will apologize for lack of faith in your inestimable mirthfulness.
And if you can't post at least one original, and clearly wittier hoax, then it's pretty clear who the idiot really is.
... doesn't keep stats on x.gtld-servers.net! so we'll never see the mass of idiots who try to access "www.fretbsd.org" :'(
In other news, GNU/OpenBSD founder T. de Raadt announced that henceforth he would be volunteering his free time as a counsellor with the local suicide prevention hotline.
Who's there?
/. crew. This is like when a drunk stands up and starts going on and on about something. Of course, he's too drunk to know he's being an ass.
I'm embarassed for the
.sigs are for post^Hers.
due april 14th by 23:59..
Quick!! someone submit a story that UnitedBSD died an hour after merging!!
I'm starting to think that the perfect april fools day joke for slashdot would be a real story
Think about it...no one would have a clue!
US income tax for is due on the 15th of April, or the first monday after the 15th if it falls on a weekend.
The famed French philosopher, Alexis DeTocqueville, is reported to have said, "America is great because America is good; if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great." It appears that America may have lost its goodness; if so, can the loss of greatness be far behind?
Consider the fact that America has now eclipsed the number of innocent people murdered by Hitler's Nazi regime. More than 35 million innocent, unborn children have been legally butchered in this country since 1973. If the abortion rate stays about the same (and there is no reason to believe that it will decline significantly any time soon) we will match Stalin's astonishing number of murdered victims within the next two or three decades.
Consider the fact that sexual perversion now enjoys not only legal protection, but also societal favor. Homosexual themes inundate movies and television. Municipalities routinely pass laws favoring the sodomite lifestyle and public school classrooms promote homosexuality as normal and healthy, the laws of nature and health statistics to the contrary notwithstanding. Governmental entities (including the military) must treat sodomy as a favored activity, and anyone who believes it to be sinful or immoral is treated as a criminal. One Army officer who recently chose to leave the service said, "When I entered the military, homosexuality was illegal. Now it is not only legal - it is promoted. I want to get out before it is required."
Then there is this alarming report from the New York Times: according to a recent study by the Urban Institute (financed by the federal government), "many teenage boys are engaging in sexual activities that include oral and anal sex." The report is from the National Survey of Adolescent Males and is found in the latest edition of Family Planning Perspectives, a publication of the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
According to the Times, "The survey of adolescent boys was based on in-person interviews with 1,297 nationally representative males ages 15 to 19 in 1995. According to the findings, more than 1 in 10 boys had engaged in anal intercourse, half had received oral sex from a girl, and slightly more than a third had performed oral sex on a girl." These figures are explosively higher than just a decade ago.
The report goes on to say: "Many adolescents . consider oral sex to be a precursor or substitute for intercourse and something that does not count as 'sex.'" Now, I wonder where they got that idea? Yet, should these findings really surprise us? After all, movies and television increasingly promote promiscuous sexual activity. In the name of diversity, government schools teach America's children to be tolerant of sexual perversion. And, sadly, even many churches are unwilling to call sin by its first name. In short, America has lost its goodness.
America will not be saved by talk of lower taxes, health care and Social Security reform. America is dying for want of morality! The cultural acceptance of abortion-on-demand and sexual perversity is eating the life out of our nation like a cancer. I wonder what DeTocqueville would say about America today?
Netcraft confirms: BSD is dying, along with the last lingering thread of Timothy's heterosexualty, and Cmdrtaco's sexual prowess.
Ahh! Not my tax form. I guess they were slashdotted.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
An April Fool and a BSD Flame in one post. Excellent job!
I just heard some sad news from Netcraft - UNIX-like operating system *BSD was found dead in its California home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you use the operating system, there's no denying its contributions to the software industry. Truly an American icon.
Would have been an interesting proposition 10 years ago. BSD is a hydra.
Real April Fools material: oddtodd.com
If the *BSDs merge, it's a good thing! So all of them can DIE TOGETHER!
After all, BSD has been dying for such a long time! Let's hope they get it right now!
-- thiago
For the love of the light under heaven, quit doing this every April Fools Day!
There are plenty of other sites running joke news. Post a few AND QUIT!
I fear that something imporant is going to slip under the radar thanks to too many stupid joke posts. >:(
-AC
We need real evidence here. How many posts to Usenet mentioned "America"?
What about Darwin? It's based on BSD unix as well.
this merged BSD line would build a dummy proof installer that is GUI based similer to Redhat or Mandrake, plus the option to do it text style like slackware:)
Save yourself time-- don't bother reading Slashdot on the first of April.
It smells like something is dead.
So this means that the 30 people left using BSD won't have to choose between which variation to use.
I asked him what today was, and he said "Tuesday... Why?"
Then I asked again, what today's DATE was? and he said "April 1st... Why?... Oh you think it's a joke?"
Told him that it was probably true and I would research it and let him know in a few days how it would effect us and our customers.
I really love messing with him.
The day Microsoft creates a product that doesn't suck, it will be known as the Microsoft Vaccuum Cleaner!
FreeBSD and OpenBSD suck compared to NetBSD. I mean the're all good, but NetBSD is compatable with the entire trio plus BSDi (like anyone cares, BSDi is dead!) and Linux if the binary's architechure is the same. The obvious killer is it's huge number of ports. It also isn't as bulky as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. It's also slighty faster than OpenBSD. Hell, I have a HP Jornada 720 and 525 running NetBSD, so haw-haw (nelson style).
Nos una. Nos unique. Nos victum.
Surely this would be a brill oportunity to bring the MicroBSD developers back into the fold. ;>
Not all conservatives are stupid,
but it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
- Hume
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