FreeBSD Core Team elections complete

imp writes "The regular elections for the FreeBSD governing board has completed. The new core team is the same as the old core team, with Scott Long replacing Greg Lehey after his resignation earlier in the year. Details can be found here."

Re:*BSD be dying

[Anonymous Coward]

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article [internetnews.com], Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
There are currently 307 FreeBSD developers as of the 2004 core team election. [freebsd.org]
You can read more about FreeBSD here [freebsd.org]

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD [freebsd.org], OpenBSD [openbsd.org], NetBSD [netbsd.org], or DragonflyBSD [dragonflybsd.org]
Enjoy!

Team List

[Anonimo Covarde]

New Core Team
=============
watson (196)
imp (181)
peter (164)
jhb (146)
murray (137)
wes (128)
scottl (125)
markm (109)
kuriyama (100)

Runners up
==========
marcel (98)
dfr (92)
obrien (68)
jmallett (47)
mux (47)
green (44)
cperciva (42)
alfred (41)
gordon (38)
benno (38)
krion (29)
josef (26)
hmp (21)
simon (16)

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Names

[Anonymous Coward]

Here are their names. I guess the election page didn't want us to know how to find their postal addresses to track em down. 'No you can't take a nap, get coding!'. J/K thanks for all the development, you rock.

Greg Lehey [grog]
Warner Losh [imp]
John Baldwin [jhb]
Jun Kuriyama [kuriyama]
Mark Murray [markm]
Murray Stokely [murray]
Peter Wemm [peter]
Robert Watson [rwatson]
Wes Peters [wes]

Re:Team List

[Orick]

Now if we can get them to come out with 5.3, my year will be complete.

No really, it's behind schedule... please bring out 5.3, I'm waiting to upgrade. :)

--
Kirby [generalhouseware.com]

Re:Linux is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot Trolls are dying... As soon as I find that box of ammo.

Re:In other news...

[Brandybuck]

Funny, it installs for me just fine...

Re:In other news...

[c0d3h4x0r]

Then you obviously haven't tried installing it on an MSI KT4 Ultra with a Western Digital Caviar 20GB drive configured as "Auto" in the BIOS.

Re:In other news...

[Brandybuck]

No I haven't. But I have installed it on two Dell GX-240s with WD Caviar 20GB drives.And on an Intel ICH5 with two 40GB Seagate Barracudas, and a Compaq 1500 laptop with whatever drive it comes with. All with "auto" in the BIOS.

You're not using "dangerously dedicated" partitioning are you? There's a reason that's called "dangerous".

Re:In other news... [ot]

[kace]

Actually, using "dangerously dedicated" should remove any pesky geometry problems. He should try that. (If you don't have to dual boot on that machine).

I had a heck of a problem getting the goemetry right with my newest home box and its 120GB drive. If you must dual boot (and therefore need the right geometry in the fdisk partition table) you should try to get a second opinion from various other utitilites and then enter it manually. The Partition Magic DOS disks finally gave me something good.

I've i

Re:In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

It could be like the RedHat installer - if a file is missing it locks up.

At least the FreeBSD version errors out and lets you re-try.

Question about FreeBSD on desktop

[MikeCapone]

I'm thinking about trying FreeBSD for the first time (currently using Slackware) and I was wondering how good it is as a desktop as far as responsiveness and low latency compared to Linux with the 2.6 kernel?