OpenBSD Hackathon Approaching

Posted by Hemos on Monday May 16, 2005 @04:02AM from the development-forward dept.

BsdFreakZoid writes "OpenBSD developers from all over the world get together once a year at their annual 'hackathon'. This year's hackathon is about to start with around 60 developers, taking place in Calgary, Alberta in Canada from May 21st through May 28th. KernelTrap has spoken with a number of OpenBSD developers about this year's and past hackathons. OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt is quoted saying, "a few hackathons ago we had a slogan of 'shut up and hack', this is because hackathons are not conferences. People don't come to chit-chat, but to do what projects do. Some other projects hold discussion meetings, I would call those talkathons. We don't discuss, we do." Past OpenBSD hackathons have seen the introduction of SMP support, support for the amd64 architecture, and many other significant advances. What big advance will come out of the 2005 hackathon is yet to be seen."

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Re:BSD by Hinhule · 2005-05-16 04:23 · Score: 0, Troll

But it will soon be.

Welcome ot Hack(andSlash)atron 2005 suckers! MWAHAHAHHA

-Bill
Re:Adaptec? by Nimrangul · 2005-05-16 04:39 · Score: 1, Troll

I can sum it up in three points I think:
aac was disabled, it is no longer supported by GENERIC (and thus OpenBSD).

Adaptec says they'll have their SDK out some time soon, which is still not what the OpenBSD people were asking for.

Scott Long thinks OpenBSD developers and users are a bunch of fuckers.

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Geekathons by Doc+Ruby · 2005-05-16 08:08 · Score: 0, Troll

That kind of dismissal of hackers talking socially is why Linux is much more popular than OpenBSD.

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Re:Shut up and hack?! by Vegeta99 · 2005-05-16 16:09 · Score: 0, Troll

You don't see OpenBSD winning any awards for number of installations, do ya?

Didn't think so.