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BSDs to be Merged
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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From this day forward... I will never listen to a single word CmdrTaco says or posts.
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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
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
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.
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
it might be a good thing (tm), but try fitting all those egos in one email list/IRC channel/conference.
There'd be dead bodies piled up.....
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,
Me too. I'm glad they are going to un-fork the BSD's. It will help level the playing field for all Unices; it's both pro-active, synergistic, and good.
Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.
If they don't include the IPv4 header changes all is lost. And surely BSD will die.
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.
I find it sad that nobody has posted a "*BSD is alive!" troll...
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
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.
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.
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.
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. :-\
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
Hilarious! :-)
I'd hate to have to rewrite all my rule sets.
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!
...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.