FreeBSD Goes Home 19
ChrisKnight writes: "According to this article FreeBSD is returning to Walnut Creek. Cool. They never screwed up my subscription, unlike Wind River." The article briefly traces the complicated ownership history of the FreeBSD name, too.
Re:Sigh of Relief (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:Sigh of Relief (Score:1)
Re:*BSD is dying (Score:1)
FACT: You don't understand what BSD is about.
My Experience with FreeBSD, WR, and WC (Score:2, Interesting)
I think they were being a bit overenthusiastic and optimistic in buying the FreeBSD business when all they knew they wanted was BSD/OS.
Glad to see at least the FreeBSD foundation is back in familiar, caring hands.
Gladly this doesn't affect the release of 4.5-- I've been using it since 4.1 and it keeps getting better and better. The fact that 5.0 was delayed, forcing more work on 4.x branches, means that FreeBSD 4.x could be the most refined Free *nix ever.
Re:My Experience with FreeBSD, WR, and WC (Score:1)
And i think this is what has attracted me to FreeBSD so much - I've recently changed over from Debian for my desktop - the level of "refinement" is just so much better than your average Linux distro.
The the kernel bootup messages for example, seem to be much more standardized, the C library seems to be much more stable, and what documentation I have read appears to be more complete and easy to follow (no random "howtos" that cover redhat and nothing else)
I want to set up a couple of servers with FreeBSD - however, I'll just have to wait until my experience with it catches up to my Linux knowledge...
For the average slashdot-linux-fanatic out there - give it a try... you might be impressed :)
smash.
*BSD is alive (Score:5, Funny)
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered AC crowd when C/Net reported that FreeBSD is going home. Wind River and FreeBSD Mall Inc. published a joint press-release today announcing the sale of Wind River's FreeBSD assets to Bob Bruce, founder of Walnut Creek CDROM--the company that in 1993 first published FreeBSD. This was the company that almost a decade ago declared to the world that *BSD is alive and thriving!
The FreeBSD Mall web site has been redesigned, with many new products, including FreeBSD CDs, books, polo shirts, microfiber jackets, boxer shorts, bumper stickers, lapel pins, several different styles of t-shirts, mouse pads, travel mugs, buttons, sticker sheets, plate logos, denim shirts, CD cases, and paid support options.
FreeBSD and its close relatives NetBSD and OpenBSD all are open-source projects, meaning that anyone can see, change and distribute the underlying source code.
With the main FreeBSD distribution back in the hands of the record holding Free Software distributor Bob Bruce, trolls posting that *BSD is dead had better keep the "anonymous" in "anonymous coward."
Fact: *BSD is alive and thriving!
Re:*BSD is alive (Score:1)
Re:*BSD is alive (Score:1)
Which resources are affected? (Score:1)
How many FreeBSD developers are part of this hot potato? It doesn't appear to have affected product quality, but too frequent corporate changes do have a negative effect on resources. Funny how some projects can be more stable in part because no two people work on it full-time for the same company.