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10 Years of FreeBSD: Anniversary Party 42

Posted by michael from the scariness dept.
FreeBSD FOREVER writes "OSNews has a quick write-up from FreeBSD's 10th Anniversary Party, which they call a success for the project and the attendees."
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  • It's a success! (Score:4, Funny)

    by ActiveSX ( 301342 ) on Tuesday November 25, 2003 @01:54PM (#7560544) Homepage
    10 years, and still dying strong!
  • Does FreeBSD have some kind of a chronic disease? Such a young age for so many people to be sitting waiting for it to die.

    In all seriousness, congratualations to the developers and supporters of FreeBSD. I'm looking at using it on the old 133 mhz sitting next to me. Wondering if that is a good idea? Probably would just serve web pages or something minimal.
    • I served HTTP and DNS from a 133MHz Intel box with FreeBSD 3.x several years back. Worked fine for small sites with static pages; mine was a small personal site, so there was not much traffic.

    • Re:Cancer? (Score:3, Insightful)

      by cperciva ( 102828 )
      I'm looking at using it on the old 133 mhz sitting next to me. Wondering if that is a good idea? Probably would just serve web pages or something minimal.

      A 133MHz box won't do very well for many GUI desktop applications, but for serving purposes it will do fine. You'll probably want to use FreeBSD Update (see sig) to keep it updated with security fixes, though, since rebuilding everything on that box would be rather slow (and you might not be able to spare 700MB for src+obj trees, either).
    • I'm running a bsd box on hmmm a K6-2 machine somewhere around 300 mhz (can't actually remember now...) and it acts a router for my USB ADSL modem serving two other PCs with NAT and packet filter, a web server (that admittedly sees little traffic) and gets bittorrents with no visible signs of ever slowing down, so the 133 should be fine I reckon.

  • I'm waiting... (Score:3, Funny)

    by gmaestro ( 316742 ) <jason.guidry@nOSpaM.gmail.com> on Tuesday November 25, 2003 @02:09PM (#7560691)
    I won't switch until FreeBSD XP comes out.
  • It is 12:10 AM PST ... we just came back from FreeBSD's 10th Year Anniversary Party

    Don't need to read the rest, the party must have sucked.

  • Windows: "Where do you want to go today?"
    Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
    FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"

  • If it were Linux... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by b00m3rang ( 682108 ) on Tuesday November 25, 2003 @08:18PM (#7564478)
    If FreeBSD were called FreeBSD Linux, this story would be on the front page. Someone's not doing something right when such good software gets so little attention.
  • The party was actually really fun. My only gripe is that some clueless chick got a really nice 2U server from offmyserver.com and she didn't even know what FreeBSD was. Hey, at least I got a bootable FreeBSD CD that loads in a RAMdisk, so that alone was worth showing up for!

    • Re:the "phat lewts" were "ninja'd" (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Loser. I'm the chick that won that server, but I wasn't there to get it, so they gave it to someone else (or so I was told). I didn't even know about it until after the damn party was over. So yeah, I don't know what FreeBSD is? I sure hope you're talking about someone else.

      Randi Harper
      http://freebsdgirl.com

      (I just broke my 5+ year slashdot boycott for this. Suck it.)

  • 1) Become an Linux consultant.
    2) Preach Linux.
    3) Profit !!!

    And when that fad goes Ack! Phfft!!

    1) Become in FreeBSD consultant.
    2) Preach FreeBSD.
    3) Profit !!!

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