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FreeBSD Foundation Passes '04 Small Donation Needs
MTS writes "Thanks to the generous contributions of over 800 donors, a combination of both first-time donors and existing supportors, the FreeBSD Foundation has met and exceeded its fund-raising goal necessary to qualify for the 1/3 'public support' goal required to maintain its 501(c)3 status with the IRS. Your continued donations will help to support a broad variety of FreeBSD activities, including critical development, developer collaboration, testing, and involvement in standards processes." Convoluted tax laws meant that FreeBSD's success in attracting larger donations had threatened the organization's tax-free status.
For those that care, the average donation amounts to about 47$. Even the smallest of donations were quite helpful here. I do wonder if anyone actually donated the 8000$ max...
Audigy support is already in 5.3. It was not in 5.2.1 though. I'm using an Audigy on 5.3 right now.
Not only does the poster below point out:1 09&cid =10951312
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131
The orginally story is from 1994. Dont forget that ext2 was based on BSD FFS. And ofcourse that since its 10 years old, no mention of softupdates or FFS2.
So, I guess that there is plenty of innovation happening in the BSD Labs. O'wait, don't forget the porting of XFS and someother file systems to *BSD.
Yes, yes, there are plenty of good files systems out there and the *BSD's take the cream of the crop.
I guess, folks forget to mention some of those things.
Long live *BSD.
His SUSE 'review' His FreeBSD 'review'
Some gems (pun intended) from the latter:
The bold parts are hyperlins to articles that supposed to show how "slow" AMD64 under FreeBSD 5.3 is supposed to be does in no way even mention FreeBSD and in fact only tests SuSE and Fedora Core along with Windows XP SP1. Same with 'completeness'. On the other hand, I remember his amd64 review of FreeBSD 5.2.1 - which was an excellent and well detailed review. I guess he didn't even try FreeBSD on amd64 since then.And don't even start me on his 'new feature list'. Forgets to mention important things like backports of many features of ULE to SCHED_4BSD, inclusion of pf and altq framwork in the base system (for sysadmins, this is perhaps one of the most important features), multithreaded network stack (although he mentions it elsewhere, but not under new features!), etc. He is even wrong in his pathetic attempt at humour (if it was that) about the naming of ULE:
Well, yes, ULE might not be an acronym, and no, its name is not SCHED_ULEI would take this guy's comments with a grain of salt, except for his older work, which I think was excellent (I don't have problems with criticism, and his old amd64 review was quite critical. I have problems with FUD and unsubstantiated claims and badly written articles). What happened to this guy?
Actually open source ideals are much more in line with free-market, small-scale capitalism, rather than any form of communism. In fact, it's all much closer to Smith than to Marx. Perhaps you should read them and not spit McCarthyisms at people who might actually know something.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
Open Source/Free Software is about cooperation instead of competition, because the current capitalist market is deeply flawed and it's often impossible for good ideas to see the light of days because the market is pretty much totally dominated by multi-billion dollars corporations.
The only way to survive, to not be driven out of business, to not be bought, is not to try to compete on their terms, not to be for sale and not to be a business.
Treehugger? Treehugger... Treehugger!