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[News] RIP, John Birrell, of Monash University in Australia and FreeBSD

  • Subject: [News] RIP, John Birrell, of Monash University in Australia and FreeBSD
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:45:43 +0000
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Death of a FreeBSD contributor: John Birrell

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| John Birrell was a Unix developer since 1988 and 
| a FreeBSD user since version 1.0.5.  He had a 
| Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Electrical, 
| First Class Honours, 1981) from Monash 
| University in Australia.
| 
| Over the years he developed with various 
| commercial Unix variants such as SysVR2/3, 
| Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1 and SCO and several 
| embedded operatings systems like VxWorks, LynxOS 
| and Microwareâs OS9.
| 
| In the open source world he was once a user of 
| NetBSD and OpenBSD in addition to FreeBSD. 
| Afterwards, he preferred just to use FreeBSD.
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http://www.freebsdnews.net/2009/12/01/death-freebsd-contributor-john-birrell/


Recent:

FreeBSD 8.0 Review: Enterprise Ready Server Operating System

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| This release improves on the functionality
| of FreeBSD 7.2 and introduces often
| requested new features in jail, SMP-
| optimized scheduler, virtualization, virtual
| network stack, NFS4, and storage subsystem
| improvements. This the most impressive
| FreeBSD releases to date. Kudos to FreeBSD
| team for rolling out stable and feature rich
| enterprise ready FreeBSD 8 operating
| systems.
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http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-8-0-review-enterprise-ready-server-operating-system.html
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