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Letter from the President
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| In 2009, the FreeBSD project had the
| misfortune of losing two long time
| contributors: John Birrell and Jean-Marc
| Zucconi. I chatted with John recently, during
| this year's BSDCAN, so his death was all the
| more shocking. It forced me to recognize my
| own mortality and to consider what
| contributions from our lives remain after we
| pass away. Reviewing the heritage of FreeBSD
| it becomes clear that our work on this
| project takes on a life of its own. John and
| Jean-Marc's efforts live on in FreeBSD.
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http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2009/12/letter-from-president.html
The Great Fallacy of BSD Unix vs. Linux
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| "Linux is just a kernel." It's a commonly
| heard refrain amongst the arguments put
| forward by BSD Unix aficionados, and it is a
| true statement, but it is all too often
| abused to try to make a fallacious point.
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http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=1722
Recent:
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/
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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