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10 Years of FreeBSD: Anniversary Party

Posted by michael on from the scariness dept.

FreeBSD FOREVER writes "OSNews has a quick write-up from FreeBSD's 10th Anniversary Party, which they call a success for the project and the attendees."

42 comments

  1. FreeBSD Overlords by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I, for one, welcome our FreeBSD Overlords.
    Even if they are dying.

  2. It's a success! by ActiveSX · · Score: 4, Funny

    10 years, and still dying strong!

    1. Re:It's a success! by tarius8105 · · Score: 1

      10 years, and still dying strong!

      Atleast BSD gets the chicks at the conferences, Linux gets the geeky looking guys :)

    2. Re:It's a success! by tarius8105 · · Score: 1

      What you call a "chick" is a pale 12 year old girl.

      Sick pedos.

      I dont know about you, but the one I saw, she said she was like 18 or 19.

  3. Cancer? by HolyCoitus · · Score: 1

    Does FreeBSD have some kind of a chronic disease? Such a young age for so many people to be sitting waiting for it to die.

    In all seriousness, congratualations to the developers and supporters of FreeBSD. I'm looking at using it on the old 133 mhz sitting next to me. Wondering if that is a good idea? Probably would just serve web pages or something minimal.

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    That's scary.
    1. Re:Cancer? by kjd · · Score: 1

      I served HTTP and DNS from a 133MHz Intel box with FreeBSD 3.x several years back. Worked fine for small sites with static pages; mine was a small personal site, so there was not much traffic.

    2. Re:Cancer? by cperciva · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I'm looking at using it on the old 133 mhz sitting next to me. Wondering if that is a good idea? Probably would just serve web pages or something minimal.

      A 133MHz box won't do very well for many GUI desktop applications, but for serving purposes it will do fine. You'll probably want to use FreeBSD Update (see sig) to keep it updated with security fixes, though, since rebuilding everything on that box would be rather slow (and you might not be able to spare 700MB for src+obj trees, either).

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    3. Re:Cancer? by TwistedSquare · · Score: 1

      I'm running a bsd box on hmmm a K6-2 machine somewhere around 300 mhz (can't actually remember now...) and it acts a router for my USB ADSL modem serving two other PCs with NAT and packet filter, a web server (that admittedly sees little traffic) and gets bittorrents with no visible signs of ever slowing down, so the 133 should be fine I reckon.

  4. 15 year slogan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    will be:

    "When are these *BSD is dying posts" going to die off?

    1. Re:15 year slogan by vesamies · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      No idea, what is this *BSD anyway?

  5. I'm waiting... by gmaestro · · Score: 2, Funny

    I won't switch until FreeBSD XP comes out.

    1. Re:I'm waiting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      FreeBSD runs on the Althon XP already.

    2. Re:I'm waiting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do you mean longhorn? Gate's answer to Steve Jobs' latest OS? That is a few years away yet, and we currently don't know exactly how much of the base system will be derived from BSD. Just remember we will get a lot less support from Microsoft than Apple gives BSD.

  6. Re:FreeBSD is dying by tarius8105 · · Score: 1

    The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most.

    Hmmm either the regular troll has finally died, or he is focusing finally on just one BSD.

  7. Home by midnight? by utahjazz · · Score: 1, Funny

    It is 12:10 AM PST ... we just came back from FreeBSD's 10th Year Anniversary Party

    Don't need to read the rest, the party must have sucked.

    1. Re:Home by midnight? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The rest of the people stayed up to 2 AM, but we had to leave for home.

      Eugenia

    2. Re:Home by midnight? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey, if you would have cleaned up the basement like your mom asked you to, I am sure she would have let you stay a little later.

    3. Re:Home by midnight? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It was raided at 12am by the FBI.
      They searched for necrophiliacs.

    4. Re:Home by midnight? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      nice! :) and modded insiteful too!

    5. Re:Home by midnight? by Groganz · · Score: 1

      Her coachmen turned into little daemons at midnight and her coach reverted to a Mac.

  8. Well said. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well said.

  9. The truth, man. by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Windows: "Where do you want to go today?"
    Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
    FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"

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  10. If it were Linux... by b00m3rang · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If FreeBSD were called FreeBSD Linux, this story would be on the front page. Someone's not doing something right when such good software gets so little attention.

  11. the "phat lewts" were "ninja'd" by cipher+chort · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The party was actually really fun. My only gripe is that some clueless chick got a really nice 2U server from offmyserver.com and she didn't even know what FreeBSD was. Hey, at least I got a bootable FreeBSD CD that loads in a RAMdisk, so that alone was worth showing up for!

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    1. Re:the "phat lewts" were "ninja'd" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My favorite part was when I had my tongue totally in this one chick's mouth and I vomited straight down her throat.

      Then I fucked a goat.

    2. Re:the "phat lewts" were "ninja'd" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Loser. I'm the chick that won that server, but I wasn't there to get it, so they gave it to someone else (or so I was told). I didn't even know about it until after the damn party was over. So yeah, I don't know what FreeBSD is? I sure hope you're talking about someone else.

      Randi Harper
      http://freebsdgirl.com

      (I just broke my 5+ year slashdot boycott for this. Suck it.)

    3. Re:the "phat lewts" were "ninja'd" by cipher+chort · · Score: 1

      That's great for you, considering they raffled it and some very clueless young women had the ticket. I guess you knew through a telepathic link that she had the ticket you would have received had you actually attended?

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  12. How to take advantage of all of this... by jo42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) Become an Linux consultant.
    2) Preach Linux.
    3) Profit !!!

    And when that fad goes Ack! Phfft!!

    1) Become in FreeBSD consultant.
    2) Preach FreeBSD.
    3) Profit !!!

  13. FreeBSD in da hizzouse!!!! by BurKaZoiD · · Score: 0

    see link...

    Why FreeBSD Rulz j00!

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