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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.
You heard it here first.
will it support the new IPv4 "Evil Bit" ?
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
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I prefer weed myself. Smoking shit never really caught on in my neck of the woods.
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'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