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FreeBSDCon 99
xlogan writes "I received my FreeBSD 99 catalog in the mail today from Walnut Creek and The FreeBSD Mall and it included a little brochure about FreeBSDCon '99. Hope I can get work to pay for the trip ;-) "
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Things are arranged for cdparanoia IV getting ported to FreeBSD as well. Monty is aiming for a more portable design than the present one.
More in a few weeks! :)
Where is it?
Ungh
So go down to 5 Points and cry in your beer........wish I was stll there.
Chuck would bbq Tux's ass and have him for Sunday dinner.
hrm, network went down and I think it screwed up the post. ranting on ACs and then ended up posted as an AC :(
http://www.freebsd.org
The two NetBSD users and the three OpenBSD users are welcome to attend.
No one will mind.
WC has supported a few of the Linux dists as well. FTP.cdrom.com has done quite a bit to make the whole open source thing work.
Soemone has to pay the bills.
That was cute.
Now realize that most lamers wouldn't take the time to set up a registered account to get their kicks. That would require an e-mail address to use, some time....
Brian Fundakowski Feldman
Are they gonna have daemons caged up there?
To err is human,
To really screw up, you need a computer!
Don't forget that Kirk McKusick is teaching a class on BSD Unix for the first two days. It's an extra $400 or so, but well worth it.
Looks to be very cool.
Jonathan Hubbard and the rest of the gang should be rather pleased with themselves. With a miniscule amount of support and publicity compared to Linux, the FreeBSD team has done a superlative job in creating an OS that, for the x86 platform, is hands down one of the best. While Linux is the media darling, we shouldn't forget the efforts of the Free/Net/OpenBSD teams, as all of them have a niche. Besides, the FreeBSD daemon is just about as cute as tux, and is alot more sinister looking. They deserve a show of their own!
Andrew G. Feinberg
I've been trying to decide whether to load FreeBSD onto a dual 266 but a lot of what I've read says that the 2.2.x kernel is better for SMP.
Any clarification please.
Pork is not a verb
Will OpenBSD and NetBSD be there as well, or is this purely a FreeBSD thing?
Actually, and I'm a fan of both OSes, I've seen a lot more mindless Linux bashing from FreeBSD people than mindless BSD bashing from Linux people. I used to hang out in #freebsd on EfNet but got sick of it because every single day involved some stupid "You use LinSUCKS? Eww!" argument.
.02: Both sides need to just calm down and accept that both OSes have plusses and minuses but are overall about the best things out there.
My
If there's ever an convention or expo for both the Linux and *BSD crowds, I think that they ought to have a wresting match between a guy in a Tux costume and a guy in a BSD daemon costume. I don't think it's that much sillier than a paintball fight between vi and emacs partisans (which actually was an event at a Linux convention), and it would give people a chance to laugh at themselves.
Whoa, BSD shows up in 1772 lines in linux kernel source code? I'm impressed Linux is looking more like BSD!!
Oh I think coders can make a program to replace "bad" words with less vulgar words! Many commercial UNIces are unispired relative to Linux.
you just need to run "disklabel -e "
then make a "clone of the 'c' partition called 'e', make the FStype 'vinum'
run vinum and simply:
'stripe e e e'
It's really not _that_ bad.
- Alfred Perlstein - Programmer and Administrator, Wintelcom.
Please look at the last graph at:
http://www.emsphone.com/stats/freebsd.html
Just something actually tangible. The growth is actually pretty astounding.
I'm not sure if i'm more confused by your definition of 'shrinking' or why _every_ FreeBSD related post on slashdot turns into an OS holy-war.
I just wanted to thank CmdrTaco for the forum to share FreeBSD related news.
Oh, and my company is paying for my FreeBSDCON experiance! w00p!
- Alfred Perlstein - Programmer and Administrator, Wintelcom.
Judging from the ignorant anti-BSD ranting that seems to go on anytime Slashdot has a BSD-related article, I am ever more and more glad that I'm migrating away from Linux to NetBSD. I still have a Slackware machine for cdparanoia, but that's about all it gets used for.
Eventually we will come to pity the mature forward-thinking people in the Linux community who have to put up with all these children.
Even if all the *BSD operating systems disappeared tomorrow, BSD would not be dead. Try grepping for 'BSD' in your Linux kernel source.
Nigga.... Puhleez.
Xlogan is a wanker. He's sitting 15 feet away from me. Should I throw something at him?
Unca Sid
So should they also include other systems like SunOS, Solaris, AIX, SCO, Linux, DEC UNIX, MacOS, and others derived from BSD?
No, the real pity is that people think that criticizing Linux is only something a "pro-Microsoft" person would do. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It's only been recently that forces have come on the scene who think that Linux is a club to beat Microsoft with.
We aren't all Windows refugees, ya know. I for one use a wide variety of operating systems, including BeOS, OS/2, NetBSD, Slackware Linux, and yes, Microsoft.
Two of the best things to come from there are LSD and Unix. I tend to prefer the former. :)
Yeah, well...Bezerkeley is a helluva lot better and fun to be around than some boring places. Like, let's say, the West Michigan area around Holland and Grand Haven. I recommend a visit, for FreeBSD or not, just to experience the place.
Hmm, I don't really have much to say about this. *BSD is very much alive. It's doing well, could be better, but it's still there, and looks like it's here to stay for a while.
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