FreeBSD Core Team elections complete

imp writes "The regular elections for the FreeBSD governing board has completed. The new core team is the same as the old core team, with Scott Long replacing Greg Lehey after his resignation earlier in the year. Details can be found here."

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Team List

[Anonimo Covarde]

New Core Team
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watson (196)
imp (181)
peter (164)
jhb (146)
murray (137)
wes (128)
scottl (125)
markm (109)
kuriyama (100)

Runners up
==========
marcel (98)
dfr (92)
obrien (68)
jmallett (47)
mux (47)
green (44)
cperciva (42)
alfred (41)
gordon (38)
benno (38)
krion (29)
josef (26)
hmp (21)
simon (16)

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Re:Team List

[Orick]

Now if we can get them to come out with 5.3, my year will be complete.

No really, it's behind schedule... please bring out 5.3, I'm waiting to upgrade. :)

--
Kirby

Re:Team List

[Anonymous Coward]

It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying. And yet why did *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?

The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

Linux is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

Nuff said.

Re:Linux is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot Trolls are dying... As soon as I find that box of ammo.

Re:Core Meltdown -- FreeBSD Toxic Shock

[Anonymous Coward]

Good News Everyone!
Mike Smith now works for Apple, who's OS is based on BSD.
Check it out: www.lemis.com/~grog /msmr.html
and at: daemonnews, un der "BSD at Apple"
He didn't like the direction that v5 was taking so he quit and starting writing BSD code for Apple.

Re:*BSD be dying

[Anonymous Coward]

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election.
You can read more about FreeBSD here

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
Enjoy!

Grammar Nazi....

[Gestahl]

"The regular elections for the FreeBSD governing board has completed."

Should be "The regular elections have completed."

That is all.

Re:Not that it matters

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn it, you're supposed to mod it -1, Offtopic!

Re:In other news...

[Brandybuck]

Funny, it installs for me just fine...

Re:In other news...

[c0d3h4x0r]

Then you obviously haven't tried installing it on an MSI KT4 Ultra with a Western Digital Caviar 20GB drive configured as "Auto" in the BIOS.

Re:In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

It could be like the RedHat installer - if a file is missing it locks up.

At least the FreeBSD version errors out and lets you re-try.

Re:In other news...

[Brandybuck]

No I haven't. But I have installed it on two Dell GX-240s with WD Caviar 20GB drives.And on an Intel ICH5 with two 40GB Seagate Barracudas, and a Compaq 1500 laptop with whatever drive it comes with. All with "auto" in the BIOS.

You're not using "dangerously dedicated" partitioning are you? There's a reason that's called "dangerous".

Names

[Anonymous Coward]

Here are their names. I guess the election page didn't want us to know how to find their postal addresses to track em down. 'No you can't take a nap, get coding!'. J/K thanks for all the development, you rock.

Greg Lehey [grog]
Warner Losh [imp]
John Baldwin [jhb]
Jun Kuriyama [kuriyama]
Mark Murray [markm]
Murray Stokely [murray]
Peter Wemm [peter]
Robert Watson [rwatson]
Wes Peters [wes]

Re:In other news... [ot]

[kace]

Actually, using "dangerously dedicated" should remove any pesky geometry problems. He should try that. (If you don't have to dual boot on that machine).

I had a heck of a problem getting the goemetry right with my newest home box and its 120GB drive. If you must dual boot (and therefore need the right geometry in the fdisk partition table) you should try to get a second opinion from various other utitilites and then enter it manually. The Partition Magic DOS disks finally gave me something good.

I've installed FreeBSD on dozens of different machines and this was the only time sysinstall guessed wrong.

K.C.

Re:In other news...

[c0d3h4x0r]

Your girlfriend is a fucking ham-beast. Did she eat the butterfly after that picture was taken?

Good work. When you die, there will now be at least two more people rejoicing that you've finally gotten what you deserved.

And still NO FreeBSD 5.3

[Anonymous Coward]

That sucks. When the hell is it coming out, anyway?

Re:And still NO FreeBSD 5.3

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's the plan. PHK quit his day job after some money was raised to pay his expenses through November. There are a lot of serious issues with KSE which he attends to devote several months of work. If 5.3 comes out before November it will not have PHK's fixes.

My guess is that a stopgap 5.3 will be released before then, but it will not have the needed fixes to KSE and locks. Which is to say, the 5.3 stopgap will not incorporate the most needed fixes. Therefore the more interesting question is whether PHK will succeed, and do it within the November cutoff timeframe.

Question about FreeBSD on desktop

[MikeCapone]

I'm thinking about trying FreeBSD for the first time (currently using Slackware) and I was wondering how good it is as a desktop as far as responsiveness and low latency compared to Linux with the 2.6 kernel?