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Usenix 2002 FreeBSD Dev Summit Notes 30

Posted by timothy from the laying-plans dept.
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."
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  • 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 (Score:1, Informative)

      by 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.
    • > 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 (Score:3, Informative)

    by m.dillon ( 147925 ) on Wednesday September 04, 2002 @02:17AM (#4193713) Homepage
    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

  • 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 (Score:1, Informative)

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

  • Why is open source having such a hard time? (Score:3, Funny)

    by archen ( 447353 ) on Wednesday September 04, 2002 @11:41PM (#4198479)
    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.

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