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IRC Forum with Matthew Dillon of DragonFly BSD

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the up-close-and-personal dept.

weebl writes "Thursday October 9th at 6:00PM PDT (9PM EDT/1AM GMT) SlashNET's #forum channel will be hosting a Q&A session with Matthew Dillon of the DragonFly BSD Project. This is your opportunity to ask about DragonFly BSD, BSD in general, or any other questions you might have for him. DragonFly BSD was first announced this past July." If you can't make it to the forum, SlashNET will have a bot running earlier in the day for question submissions, and logs available afterward.

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  1. IRC Is Dead by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't you get the memo?

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  2. A dragonfly bit me the other day by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was just doing some gardening and it bit me on the back of the hand.

    I don't want to use any operating system that reminds me of that traumatic experience.

    I liked Dillon in Footloose, though.

    1. Re:A dragonfly bit me the other day by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Funny

      Phhhhft! Linus got charged by an angry penguin, and had to run for his life, but he still works on Linux. I mean, having some rabid penguin chase you around a zoo is much more traumatic that getting bit by a dragonfly.

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  3. Be sure to ask him... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    about the future of *BSD and its imminent death.

  4. Re:It is now official by endx7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying

    I really shouldn't reply to this kind of comment, but doesn't that comment seem kinda weird if you consider the fact netcraft runs FreeBSD?

  5. Too many Matt Dillons! by PHPee · · Score: 4, Funny

    As soon as I saw Matt Dillon's name associated with BSD, I got really excited. I mean, who knew that the ol' gunslinger Marshal Matt Dillon became a programmer?

    Then, I realized I must have been thinking about the wrong Matt Dillon, but I still thought it was weird that the guy from There's Something About Mary became involved in a BSD project.

    Finally I remembered the other Matt Dillon who developed the DICE C compiler for the Amiga back in the good old days.

  6. Re:*BSD for Windows XP? Set up first! by ratfynk · · Score: 1, Funny
    First run a bsd boot floppy and use the set up command;

    dd if=dev/urandom of=dev/ad0

    this command will fix things up for you first.

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