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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?
davejenkins.com |
I think that that BSD is the best.
How about you?
IMarv
Trusting software vendors is no smarter than trus
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
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" ?
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
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.
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?
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]
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
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
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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?
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.
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.
Wouldn't that require a necromancer?
"5... 4... 3.. 1... OFFBLAST!"
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
Well, since slashdot is a meta-site on the other 364 days of the year, doesn't this sort of make sense?
--
the strongest word is still the word "free"
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
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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
http://www.digifuzz.net
"And out of that unholy union was born a clone.. this will ensure that future generations of /.'ers won't miss out ./ dupes!"
Please tell me that noone took a video of the birth!
CmdrTaco's Dulpicate stories Merged
/. Effect".
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! :-)
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.
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
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" :'(
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.
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.
Ahh! Not my tax form. I guess they were slashdotted.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Would have been an interesting proposition 10 years ago. BSD is a hydra.
Real April Fools material: oddtodd.com
We need real evidence here. How many posts to Usenet mentioned "America"?
What about Darwin? It's based on BSD unix as well.
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