Usenix 2002 FreeBSD Dev Summit Notes

S K Medusa writes "The FreeBSD Project has put up a page detailing the developments that took place at the Usenix 2002 FreeBSD Developer Summit. Here's the full lowdown. Lots of interesting discussion on SMP, performance issues, new arch targets and the release process. Well worth a look."

BSD not a bad thing

[dacarr]

OK, just my $.02 here too. We need some traffic in here.

So mine are simple: it's good to see BSD Unix *in general* getting attention still, and better to know that the little devil is still kicking. It works, it can talk TCP/IP, and it's not Micro$oft.

Yes, I'm a Linux user. Deal with it.

Re:BSD not a bad thing

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, you don't need traffic here. Slashdot is simply not the place to hear the latest about the BSD's. There's daily.daemonnews.org, openbsdjournal (www.deadly.com), and others, most of them with more up to date and (cough, cough) accurate information than Slashot offers and without the retards. More to the point, each project has its very own (and aptly named) website . I would mention the mail lists as well, but it's better that they're kept secret. Occasionally a BSDisdying troll finds his way over there, but then the authorities eventually find him and get him to start taking his medication again.

Re:BSD not a bad thing

[MavEtJu]

Slashdot is simply not the place to hear the latest about the BSD's.

I find the slashboxes quite handy: Daily Deamon News, BSDToday and FreeBSD Diary.

Re:BSD not a bad thing

[Anonymous Coward]

actually, it's deadly.org. the .com is some pop-up haven

Re:BSD not a bad thing

[FLoWCTRL]

> It works, it can talk TCP/IP, and it's not Micro$oft.

Thats funny. The release of BSD4.2 in 1984 included the TCP/IP suite of networking protocols -- many years before Linux was even invented. It works very well, you can be sure.

Meeting Pictures Available

[m.dillon]

You can access pictures I took during the FreeBSD summit (Click Here) [backplane.com]. There were some great moments and since I was putting the pics up in near real time the folks coming in on the conference call were effectively there in person.

-Matt

Cool....

[iNiTiUM]

Glad to see they're workin on adding more platforms to the list. Always good to see BSD is in fact not dying, specially since i use it for damn near ever production server i run.

A real Netcraft confirmation

[Anonymous Coward]

Netcraft confirms... [netcraft.com] 49 of the top 50 longest uptime web sites run BSD.

Re:A real Netcraft confirmation

[Arandir]

It looks like the City of Kobe knows something that the City of Key Largo doesn't...

Re:A real Netcraft confirmation

[fregga]

Actually its 47 that run BSD of some sort, 17 of which are FreeBSD, the rest BSD/OS, 2 instances of Linux and 1 of SGIs Irix in the top 50 :-)

Why is open source having such a hard time?

[archen]

So here is a good example of why open source is having a hard time:

"An OpenBSD presentation slide" [backplane.com]

Note the lack of pointless animations to drive home the point that there is a lack of content. Note the lack of gradiant/textured background to "enhance" the slide in some way as to somehow looking "professionally done with Power Point" (cute font is a good start though). Notice the lack of bullets to point out that you didn't have much to say in the first place, and just have a few points with bullets.

Most importantly (from the slide), "Recently improved":

tcron/popen.c; md5(1); altqd parser; hash/rmd160.c, etc..

Any chance of a mortal person understanding even remotely what that means? That looks suspicously like content.