FreeBSD Ports Collection Breaks 10,000 Ports

Re:Will they let it die now? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-31 06:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Rate of death = 1/number of ports infinity / | 1/x dx 0 / 10000 --- \ / 1/x 1 --- Therefore: I think we have many more opportunities to proclaim the death of BSD. But it will never actually die.

Why is the parent modded up? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-31 09:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This guy needs to be depenguinated Please mod parent down

Re:Why is the parent modded up? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-31 19:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Oct. 23 -- BSD resumed receiving life-sustaining care yesterday in a
Florida hospital room, but many experts said there is virtually no hope
that it will ever recover, despite it fan boy's desperate hopes.

"IF IT'S over a year, BSD's not ever going to get up," said Fred Plum, a
professor emeritus at Weill Cornell College in New York. "You'd just
don't see it. It just doesn't happen."
BSD, 39, has been in a persistent vegetative
state since its heart stopped for unknown reasons in 1990. A feeding
tube in BSD's stomach was removed this past Wednesday after its husband,
Theo De Ratt, who said his wife had told him she (BSD) would not want to
be kept alive under such circumstances, won a long series of court
battles to have life-sustaining nourishment withdrawn so she (BSD) could
die.

Please Die, Please Die, Please Die... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-31 10:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I don't want to have to troll for the whole of 2004. So die and do me a favour.

Please Die.

Re:Please Die, Please Die, Please Die... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-31 20:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

dont like trolls?

THEN STOP RESPONDING TO THEM!

this is the stuff that feeds them!

but you folks never listen and it keeps happening

Re:heh. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-31 13:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That's because gentoo is dying, you fucking troll.

Coping Stratagies by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-31 18:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Although it is true that BSD is dying, there are some helpful steps you can take ease your sorrow:

deal with the inevitable.
grieve for your loss.
move on.

Never let your emotions get mixed up with something as silly as a computer operating system. It isn't healthy. So BSD fails. Big whoop. Deal with it and move on. Hope this helps.

YHBT YHL HAND by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-31 18:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

dont like trolls?

THEN STOP RESPONDING TO THEM!

this is the stuff that feeds them!

but you folks never listen and it keeps happening.

Re:YHBT YHL HAND by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-01 11:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I want to put my pee pee in your poo poo hole
Re:YHBT YHL HAND by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-01 16:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

THEN STOP RESPONDING TO THEM!

Was tried a year ago. Did not work then.
Re:YHBT YHL HAND by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-03 04:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Was tried a year ago. Did not work then.

Proof? I've never seen an example of the *BSD community ever ignoring troll posts, or being able to shut its mouth from trolling in Linux threads for that matter

Re:Will they let it die now? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-31 19:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The 'it' you speak of - your brain - has been dead for years. But the flesh fly larve feeding on your dead troll brain deserves to live.

So, until the maggots are done with you, no.

My personal experience in the FreeBSD world by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-31 22:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I've been an avid follower of the developments in FreeBSD for around 5 years now, so my overview of the entire history of "glue that binds" FreeBSD together isn't complete. That said, I've come to be a bit disappointed at how events in the last 18 months or so seem to be pushing the project in a direction that has made things more difficult, instead of more successful, that has shown distain for experience and quality and made FreeBSD a platform for large ego's to push their personal projects down everyone's throat.

The statistics sample from 2001 over a year was a cheap attempt to minimize Matt's contribution to the project. The reason why he has been mostly silent is probably one of the most prominent signs of his superior maturity. The fact that the official defense (mostly fronted by Greg, atm) he wasn't such a substantial committer is crap, for the most part. If one wanted to go by the stats, Jeff Robertson (sorry if I munged the spelling) would be one of the key committers, and his UMA system isn't even entirely ripe yet, it's just been committed within the sample timeframe. That suddenly phk is at the top of the list, is simple a result of his newest attempt to add another large chunk of bit rot to the project that he can later claim not to have time to maintain "unless someone is willing to pay for my time" (like the atm bits, the half-finished devd monster, et.al.) One can hardly get him to look at his malloc bits, that put his name in lights at some point in the long past.

Matt didn't contribute because he was convinced that that the smp development direction that was chosen (my impression at least from the archives and my fading memory) was overly complex, too complex for the number and talent level of the contributers involved, and that it would delay a release from the -current branch significantly. So he was right. I'll almost bet that that was a constant sore for John, who still hasn't gotten his long-promised, but little delivered re-entrant work done, but he always had time enough to object to any other commits that might help along the way. Strangely Julian and Matt could work together. One might attribute certain commits to both Matt and Julian (if that would matter anyway, since -core is interested in proving the opposite statistically).

If the issue here had anything to do with IPFW, then you all better get out your C-coder hats and take a little more time to fix that rotting pile of muck that has been the standard broken packet filter interface for FreeBSD long past its possible usefulness. A packet filter with no central maintainer which is subject to once yearly random feature bloat through some wild university project from Luigi. The brokenness that Luigi introduced (and the repository bloat through backing out and recommitting, ad absurdum) was probably no less a threat to security than anything Matt did. If the security officer was to be blatantly honest with himself, ipfw would be marked broken for either a full audit or full removal (just port obsd's pf or something that someone actually actively _cares_ about).

You've alienated Jordan, Mike, Bill Paul (for all I can see), Greenman, you constantly rag on Terry, even though he's seen and done more with FreeBSD than most of you, O'Brien is on the verge of quitting (since he, like I, am not convinced that GEOM is anything more than an ego trip that will never be completely maintained or usefully documented). There are certainly others, too, that have attempted to make technically correct contributions, but didn't fit into the sort of paranoid "glee club" that core would like to have around them. You guys lack the talent to steer the positive from Matt into the project and let the crap fall by the wayside. I'm not saying Matt's rants are the most intelligent thing he's done, but he's sat by the wayside and watch the superstars beat up the code to a point where it's less stable, slower, and more bloated than it ever was. I, for one, can understand his frustration (as I can with Mike's, Jordan's, and a few o

Re:My personal experience in the FreeBSD world by linimon · 2004-01-01 08:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Hey Harv, apparently the moderators haven't had a chance to notice that this is one of your usual reposts to all *BSD threads. That's the only way this post could still be labeled 'interesting'.
Re:My personal experience in the FreeBSD world by linimon · 2004-01-01 09:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Now Harv, you know that's because most people have better sense than to reply to your incessant trolling, reposting the same N postings over and over and over again. There's just not much point trying to discuss anything BSDish on Slashdot, because of that. But I guess it's really safe for you to do this, for whatever bitter reasons you have, as long as you can be Anonymous Coward. Never was the default username more appropriate than in your posts ... Of course, you could prove me wrong by telling us all who you are, and how it was exactly that you came to be kicked out of the project -- or am I assuming too much, here? Am I wrong to also assume you're the person who subscribes FreeBSD mailing lists to other mailing lists to waste people's time? And files false Problem Report after false Problem Report to help gum up the works? So, Harv, tell us who you are, and what exactly it is that you've done to *create* something --anywhere -- rather than just posting venom, and prove me wrong here. I'll be man enough to admit it.

MOD ABUSE ALERT by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-01 05:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

this is not a troll

it is a legitimate criticism of *BSD.

If you dont agree with it, respond and tell us why its wrong. Otherwise you are showing to us that your argument is weak by censoring the opposing viewpoint.

Re:MOD ABUSE ALERT by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-02 02:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This is the BSD section. The people who visit this place are snobbish BSD jerks who can't stand one bit of criticism against the great and holy BSD. Wait till a BSD thread gets posted on the front page, then we'll see fairer moderation.

YHBT YHL HAND by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-01 08:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

you fell for a troll

I WANT TO PUT MY PEE PEE IN YOUR POO POO HOLE by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-01 10:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fact: *BSD Is Dying

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I WANT TO PUT MY *BSD PEE IN YOUR DEAD POO HOLE by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-01 14:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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