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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."

9 of 42 comments (clear)

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

    10 years, and still dying strong!

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

    I won't switch until FreeBSD XP comes out.

  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. 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: 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.)

  7. 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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  8. 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 !!!