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OpenBSD Turns 10
Eh-Wire writes to tell us OpenBSD Journal is reporting that OpenBSD is officially ten-years-old today. After some confusion, it was decided that 10 years ago today marked the birth of OpenBSD when Theo de Raadt committed his makefile to CVS.
BSD is 10.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Yes thats right, I am forking the OpenBSD tree.
My first release will be MyBSD2010. Note the large quasi futuristic number on the name - clearly it is a better product. Sure the code may be the same, and I may have no intentions of patching or improving, but I DO intend to re-release it in several months as MyBSD2030.
Note the 20 increment in there - clearly BIG BIG things have happened.
With the release of MyBSD2050 I plan on addind a large graphic and a pleasing startup sound my daughter shall compose on the toy keyboard she has.
This will clearly be a superiour product!
And if I feel particularly good, I may start to release hundreds of service packs each release... some of which shall just randomly change about lines of source code. If enough people run this, one of them has to randomly produce a code improvement (Following the million monkey theory). That person shall be slightly better off for the microsecond before one of the many bad mutations crashes the system.
Whoops, just accidentally release MyBSD2010 SP1
And BAH to a simple CD you can buy that comes complete with a full set of installation instructions! No, my new and improved (signifying nothing) distrobution will come in a very large box - very brightly colored, with no instructions, but a large legal document (also signifying nothing) and a hefty price tag because that - more than anything - is what the market demands!
The number of gimps who replied to this because they didn't get the version numbering joke is astounding. Really, really astounding.
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
Thank you. I was beginning to wonder if everyone thought I was a jackass who really believed that.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO! Its Captain Obvious. And he is on crack as usual.
Perhaps you missed my point, maybe I missed yours, maybe we're seeing things entirely different. There are a lot of possibilities but this is leading nowhere, I would just like to wish you a nice day.
I hope that if we ever converse in that future that it will be both positive and constructive. I have seen your posts in the past and I hope to see them in the future, and even though you do not seem too fond of me (atleast in my perspective, sorry to assume) I will look forward to them still!
Wow. Ghandi? Is that you?
That sure was refreshing! And at slashdot!!
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?