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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."

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  1. 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.

  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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