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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. Moderation by horcy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think it's time that the slashdot staff has to take action against those lame BSD posts... Every single news fact about BSD gets these empty headed posts.

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    1. Re:Moderation by cpeterso · · Score: 2, Insightful


      Slashdot could add a new lameness filter to prevent people from posting comments that contain the words "BSD" and "dead". How often do you really need to use the word dead in casual converstation?

      I was originally going to just joke that any comment that contained the word "BSD" should be filtered, but the idea of filtering "BSD AND dead" is not that bad an idea.

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    2. Re:Moderation by merdark · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Earth to Linux zealot. XFree86 is BSD software. That's right, it's under the BSD license, and has *nothing* to do with Linux! Wow.

      Furthmore, you can't credit Linux with GCC either. GCC is worked on by many many people using many different systems. By your logic, you should be kissing Apple and Sun's butts since they infused quite a bit of help into GCC and GNOME. You should also kiss Troll Tech's butt for QT which let's KDE exist. And of course you should kiss SGI's butt for giving you GLX (part of XFree now) and OpenGL.
      So Red Hat helps out too, so what? Linux is owed nothing and deserves nothing.

      If anything, Linux has set the open source movement back a few years by having inferior technology (ya ya 2.6 fixes this) and an unstable driver API preventing the much needed vendor made drivers.

      Oh, and Linux is not the real world by the way. Look up, away from your monitor and breath. Meet world.

    3. Re:Moderation by pyrrhonist · · Score: 2, Insightful
      How often do you really need to use the word dead in casual converstation?

      How about:

      "I can't log into the BSD box!"
      "That's because it's dead."
      Oh, wait, that's never going to happen in a billion years.
      You're right, it won't come up in casual conversation.
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    4. Re:Moderation by merdark · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yes, Linux could disappear tomrrow with no problems. Any one of the BSD kernels could take over the duties performed by the Linux kernel. All those "Linux vendors" would them immediatly be "BSD vendors".

      You cannot credit Linux with the open source movements achievments. Sorry, try again.

      The only reason the corporations are using Linux is because of the hype. The only reason Linux is the more popular kernel is due to the AT&T lawsuite that existed when both Linux and BSD were new.

      Sure, companies make drivers for Linux, credit popularity again, not the kernel. Do you know why there are not *more* drivers for Linux? Because of the crappy ABI. And know what's more? Most of those binary only drivers are specifically for "Red Hat". Again, Linux is the problem here.

      Just because the term Linux is commonly used to refer to the open source operating system technology doesn't mean you get to credit everything to Linux. Try again bud.

      BSD owes Linux nothing. It may owe something to the *companies* promoting open source operating systems which *happen* to use the Linux kernel, but certainly not to the Linux kernel.

  2. Re:Binary patches? Please? by cperciva · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or, more usefully: FreeBSD Update, which is also in the FreeBSD ports tree (security/freebsd-update).

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  3. Re:Any Necraft data? by Dark_Planet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Netcraft data

  4. Broken 1.0 releases? by bovinewasteproduct · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So who else has contributed broken software to a 1.0 release?

    I'm the reason why the mitsumi CD-ROM driver was broken, and of course Rod had just cut the gold master (and back then it was a major pain to make masters) and could not update the sources.

    After about 20 patches, he just just gave me a commit bit...:)

    BWP