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ekkoBSD Officially Dead
sniperu writes "The EkkoBSD team leader announced the project's premature death , only 12 days after their latest release . No clue is given about the causes of such an unespected end other than saying "It's been a stressful fun trip" . You can still get the last release from the downloads page . Get it while you can ."
Yet another crippling bombshell has hit the BSD community when CmdrTaco of Slashdot announced the death of EkkoBSD. The EkkoBSD homepage now contains a list of the people that worked on the project and their contributions. Although EkkoBSD is dead, this does not mean that BSD in general is dead any more than the Yankees losing last night means their season is dead. You have to try in order to succeed, and sometimes when you try, yuo fail it. But if no one ever failed it, no one would ever succeed it either, and we would still be running around in caves chasing wooly mammoths. To the EkkoBSD team your effort was not in vain.
ATTENTION METAMODERATORS: Please note the title of this story. This comment is not a troll, and it is certainly not offtopic, so if anyone has applied these moderations you should mark it "unfair." A Redundant mod, however, would be perfectly fair because I've basically just repeated what Taco said in the summary. Positive moderations are always appreciated, and should only be m2'd as "unfair" when someone mods up a blatant copy&paste troll or hidden goatse/lastmeasure link (neither of which describes this comment; I defy anyone to find a copy of this comment on the GNAA website or any other trolling website).
Move him into the sun--
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown.
Always it awoke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.
Think how it wakes the seeds--
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides
Full-nerved,--still warm,--too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
--O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?
EkkoBSD is dead. Who cares. I'm not going to let it get me down. I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow in maturity and stability. I want to have more victories than defeats, yet here I am, almost 35, and I fail on a regular basis. My involvement with BSD has been no different. It seems that I'm a magnet for failed enterprises like BSD. Some investment advice for you -- look at my portfolio, then you'll know what stock not to buy.