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FreeBSD to Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary in SF, CA

Posted by michael on from the a-good-time-will-be-had-by-all dept.

Dan writes "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...in the early part of 1993...the last 3 coordinators of the 'Unofficial 386BSD Patchkit' would go on to start the FreeBSD project that has grown to be used by millions of websites and installations around the world. Murray Stokely is talking about Jordan Hubbard, Nate Williams, and Rod Grimes. Looking for a catchy name, David Greenman suggested FreeBSD and it stuck. With the help of Walnut Creek CDROM, the first CDROM distribution, FreeBSD 1.0, was released in December of 1993."

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  1. Did you forget? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To sign out or select 'Anonymous Coward' this time with your BSD rantings?

    For a snicker, from saden1's description: 23, good looking, smart and sexy. I'm a geek without all the emotional and ideological baggage.

    1. Re:Did you forget? by bsd_usr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      At least he has the balls to use his id. What's wrong, did you lose your balls, Mr. Anonymous Coward?

  2. Re:Moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is what we call censorship.

    if you don't like someone else's opinion, just ignore them.

  3. Re:*BSD: Feeding tube re-inserted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where do I mention Linux in my post?

    Asshat.

  4. TROLL IN ONE WARNING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The person posting the Troll-in-one is a BSD user trying trying to encourage people not to post the truth about BSD.

    Feel free to post the truth as often as nessecary until everyone understands, folks.

  5. Re:Troll-in-one by Paracelcus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm going to take the bait!
    Without flaming or ranting or childishly using foul language!

    On my humble P55C233 with 196 Megs of RAM and two 5,000 RPM eide HDD's...
    FreeBSD 4.4 RELEASE
    Running SETI@Home
    CUPS
    DDclient
    Samba
    Fetchmail
    Sendm ail
    SSH, etc.

    I can copy a 22 Meg tif image from one HD to the other using "cp /opt/pictures/geomp.tif /home/myhome/" it takes 3 mins 36 seconds.

    I think you need to look carefully at your configuration and check for rootkits, and hidden processes.

    --
    I killed da wabbit -Elmer Fudd
  6. Re:*BSD is not dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This sick post should just be removed. People who think this crap is funny should just grow up...oh, wait.. give the 5 year old some time and maybe he will.

  7. HEY MICHAEL MOD ME DOWN LOL OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All our times have come
    Here but now they're gone
    Mac OS don't fear the reaper
    Nor do the windows, SUN or the rain..we can be like they are
    Come on baby...don't fear the reaper
    Baby take my hand...don't fear the reaper
    We'll be able to fly...don't fear the reaper
    BSD's bought the farm....

    Distro is done
    Here but now they're gone
    Romeo and Juliet
    Are together in eternity...Romeo and Juliet
    40,000 server crashes every day...Like Romeo and Juliet
    40,000 workstations reformatted everyday...Redefine happiness
    Another 40,000 coming everyday...We can be like they are
    Come on baby...don't fear the reaper
    Baby take my hand...don't fear the reaper
    We'll be able to fly...don't fear the reaper
    BSD's bought the farm...

    Love of two is one
    Here but now they're gone
    Came the last night of sadness
    And it was clear she couldn't log on
    Then the file was opened the wind appeared
    The mobo blew then disappeared
    The curtains flew then Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith appeared...saying don't be afraid
    Come on baby...and she had no fear
    And she ran to them...then they started to fly
    They looked backward and said goodbye...she had become like they are
    She had taken their hand...she had become like they are
    Come on baby...don't fear the reaper "

  8. Oh shit - someone has trolled my troll! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh god that cracked me up. I had to have a secondlook at it to realise that it was a troll of a troll.

    Good work. Nice to know that someone out there isn't taking the trolls seriously.

  9. Re:*BSD is not dying by peterpi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    heheh, that is teh 1337 troll! ;)

  10. Re:Any Necraft data? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You don't keed to be a Kreskin to look into FreeBSD's future. Even a child knows that FreeBSD is dying. All major marketing surveys show that FreeBSD has steadily declined in market share. FreeBSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.

    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.

    The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral. In truth, for all practical purposes FreeBSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking. It's a fact: FreeBSD is dying.